Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Robert Paul Wolff Lecture 6

[enlightenedturtle]

I am reading along with these lectures (in German, first time reader of the CPR) and this part of the reading blew me away. I don't know what has taken me so long to finally read the critique, but I think I won't be reading anything else for a while :-0

Thanks for uploading them!

[chandraraj]

Wolff 's lecture does a wonderful job of explaining Kant's Critique!

[delpperez]

Now I understand how Husserl and phenomenology came up with so many of their proposals

[MirzaBorogovac]

I wonder what professor Wolff thinks about insights into mind that we got from computer science.

For example, it turns out that something as simple as recognizing objects in an image is incredibly difficult and complicated to teach to a computer.

[italolinslemos]

Wow, definitely the best lecture so far

[Bobxchen]

"The mind itself is the law giver of the nature." The nature is just appearance to our perception. However it depends on our mind to interpret the laws of nature. There is something subjective to our "knowledge".

[stevenpittz]

Why is Wolff so sure that the notion of individuals as the law-givers of nature undermines his ethical theory? All of the renderings of the Categorical Imperative (which Kant says are all equivalent) seem to me to be capable of being read as applying to an individual by him/herself (with the possible exception of the Kingdom of Ends rendering, but still, every individual is an "end in themselves")
Therefore, the rule for every moral act would be discoverable by every person individually, without the need for concerning oneself with the existence of others. Duty would call, so to speak, regardless of whether others truly existed.
I have to think Wolff has thought of this...what am I missing here?

[crizish]

Wolff is the only professor to make Kant sound exciting! Loved it. Can't wait for him to get back from Paris...

[Klklk]

“I am the lawgiver of Nature”.
Problem:who are you? You are an appearance in my realm of appearance. You are an appearance I’ve synthesized. It’s not clear how there can be two consciousnesses. This fact one unity of consciousness undermines his ethical theory. Who do I owe debts to? Moral obligations? Lie to?
Hegel took all this he distinguishes world spirit organizes the world from self

[Klklk]

Mind affects itself. Contra Descartes, mind only knows the self the same way it knows other objects. It represents itself. Not in itself. It imposed temporality. It imposes a rule a category . They’re unified due to temporal order. 😊

[Fichteberlinski]

Objects:structures of judgment.
Self is lawgiver: undermines the ethical . There can’t be two selves.

[edwardwoods]

As profound, seemly absurd and perhaps startling as Kant’s conclusion “the mind is the law giver of nature” is at first hearing. If we take transcendental idealism seriously and follow Kant’s argument it is an inevitable conclusion. The unity of consciousness guarantees the uniformity of nature. I must say that while I I don’t totally buy in to Kant’s whole argument and I think discoveries of modern science would seriously modify it. Nevertheless, I think the essentials of transcendental idealism would still hold up after that modification and I think it is a plausible interpretation of human knowledge.

[brunocarvalho]

Wow. Thank you! Your lectures have been of so much help. Cheers.

[Max-nczn]

Kant owes it to himself to pay his debts.

[paololuckyluke]

Isn’t Kant just saying other people are in noumenal reality as people-in-themselves as much as anything else exists there as a thing-in-itself?

[mordecaiben-gurion]

Knowledge is so sweet! Thank you Professor.

[boardpassenger]

Kant saved freedom from determinism, but still not the existence of you guys as noumenal agents...

[iotz]

great lecture up to end. leave politics out..even the best minds can be brained washed by the media.

[Klklk]

Physical objects= structures of judgment

[leoman]

tell ‘em how it appears to be, Wolff!