Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena | Intuitions, Space, and Time | Philosophy Core Concepts

This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics and examines his discussion in the First Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Mathematics Possible? Specifically this bears upon his discussions of the a priori intuitions that are the basis for pure mathematics, namely space and time. These are the forms of empirical intuitions, preceding them logically, and they also provide geometry, arithmetic, and pure mechanics their bases.

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[brharley]

If all objects come to our perception in this form of space and time, as we can't imagine objects that don't take space in our mind, why does it actually precede experience? This assumes the existence of objects outside our perception that don't have this form, which i understand is what Kant mean by the thing-in-itself. But it makes more sense to me that the content can't exist without form and vise versa. How can it be otherwise?

[jonathanx]

Hey Gregory, currently studying a course about philosophy from the renaissance to the enlightenment, what would you say is the most groundbreaking philosophers during this long era? Descartes, Rousseau, Kant?

[kadaganchivinod]

Can we expect diagrams like Half Hour Hegel videos, here?

[productions]

Is it in line with Kant to think of the forms of space and time as a mental apparatus, similar to how neuroscience claims the visual processing parts of our brain process and condition the visual stimuli we receive? Or is it wrong to think of the forms of understanding as merely part of ourselves?

[danyelbe]

I do know I would say a foolish thing but I can't figure out space without objects or points. For Euclid, in my shallow interpretation, point and space are correlatives, if I have a point it would be in a space and I would have space if there is a point, more or less as the relationship between continent and content. So the condition of a space is a point and vice versa. But I feel that assertion that objects and space, so time, are correlatives brings to the hypotheses that the kosmos or the universe are eternal, somehow, but I must study it deeper, maybe in Proclus or some Neoplatonic philosopher.
BTW, amazing classes about Kant, Professor Sadler, thank you so much for them.