Immanuel Kant-Copernican Revolution

This is a presentation that I did for honors at school that I thought I might share with you (I was one of four students presenting that day). Sorry for the quality of sound, my new camera doesn't pick it up that well. I recommend listening to the video with the audio a bit higher than usual. I also needed to chop the length of the video down a bit just to get it to fit youtube's maximum limit, so I apologize if it seems too choppy. Lastly, if any of the info screens seem to go by too quickly, you might try just pausing and reading them at your leisure.

The music is a piece by Bach composed for the Klavier (I can't remember which, he wrote, like, a million of those). Also, the picture with Kant and his beloved pineapple was my own photoshop idea and creation, meaning that this totally awesome idea is mine. Mine mine mine. And so were the diagrams of the Epistemic models. All other pictures were found with Google Image search and them compiled into screen shots with Power Point.

I gave the people at the presentation a handy dandy handout to follow as a guide. If you'd like to see if for yourself, I'll gladly send it to you if you ask.

[CosmoShidan]

Yet the touch aspect would work if the object were rectangular like a coffee table, since they have to go around the table to find all four sides to get the shape of the table. Or if the object was round, like an orange, then they have to hold the orange and roll it around in their hands to feel the roundness of the orange.

[CosmoShidan]

BTW I looked up perception and it not only means to observe aesthetics, but refers to intuitively recognize truth; especially mentally. Therefore reason is a perception because it is done in the mentally.

[CosmoShidan]

That was great! Thanks for sharing Phantom!

[caitlynhawkins]

Thanks for posting this! It helped me prepare for my final exam!!

[CosmoShidan]

What about dreams? Would not dreams be a form of perception since it is within the mind? Or that of reason?

[CosmoShidan]

Well in my view, in order to understand 'Critique of Pure Reason', you have to read it alongside 'Outlines of Skepticism' by Sextus Empiricus because Kant is using a type of argumentation that is similar to Empiricus' style of argumentation; that style being comparing two thesis and deconstructing them to their constituent parts and examining their strengths and weaknesses before arriving at a consensus. If it sounds like Hegel, it's because Hegel also picked up from Empiricus who I recommend.

[CosmoShidan]

Another thing, going back to your original premise, does this mean you agree with Kant? That is when he states in 'Critique of Pure Reason' that "[a]ll knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason..."

[CosmoShidan]

Okay then, what if the only sense he had was touch and he had to use that sense to form the shape of objects with his reason to perceive it? Would he then be able to have perception? Also have you seen this video?:

watch?v=Ti0Jczx-gMA

If not, check it out, and then it's sequel. You have to watch both to get the point.

[CosmoShidan]

Are you sure that reason is not a perception? What if a person were blind, deaf and mute and all he has is reason to guide his theoretical imagination? Is that not perception?

[Kastanje]

Can't believe you managed to speak German so well. You learned it during your adulthood? Echt prima gemacht. And what is the name of the last book you recommend - the one with the historical overview? 

[CosmoShidan]

On another note, are the senses always reliable?

[CosmoShidan]

Not to mention it's important to have an understanding of the history behind Western philosophy in order to truly grasp it, or else one will not understand Western thought.

[CosmoShidan]

It's not my fault that 'Critique of Pure Reason' is not in the layman since it was written more than 200 years ago, nor that Rand may not have read Empiricus to get Kant's context. I suggest you step out of the Objectivist bubble and start reading 'Outlines of Skepticism' alongside 'Critique of Pure Reason'.

[cariensmith]

Interesting altercation that took place down here... anyways thanks for the video. :)

[CosmoShidan]

How do you know that? Is it because Rand said so? If it is because Rand said so, then I call fallacy on that for I have never heard Rand give word on Empiricus, who inspired Kant, since she was too busy glorifying Aristotle and bashing Kant for no reason without looking into one of Kant's sources. Have looked into 'Outlines of Skepticism' as well? It is imperative to read said work to get Kant's method and all of Greco-Roman philosophy to understand modern philosophy or else it's foolish not to.

[saqibshah]

i need some books to read kant as a boring man he influenced me too much. i have all his books but i need overviews by German philosophers

[CosmoShidan]

Kant is not against reason, for as I have stated, he compares the strengths and weaknesses of reason to experience and puts down Hume, Locke, Leibniz Descartes, Hobbes and many others for preaching dogma; which parallels Empiricus' criticism of Epicurus, Plato, Aristotle and many others of dogma.


Also I find your second statement rather ridiculous; the English language is full of words that have ambiguous meanings; such as the word daemonic.