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Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2011
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Podcast episode
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Lecture 6/8. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories as the enabling conditions of all human understanding.
Released:
Mar 16, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (8)
Idealisms and their refutations: Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible. by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason