Introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Part 1 of 4) 2020

In loving memory of Lawrence Pasternack (1967-2024): a great teacher, person, and Kantian Scholar.
I remade this video from 7 years ago; the old one is still up. It begins a series of 4 Videos on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

[timwood]

Ooops. The unknowable world is the world of the "Ding an sicht selbst, " the thing in itself as it is in itself. You can't know it because you don't have direct access to it. The noumenon is the idea of it created in/by your mind, your perception. And you cannot know that because there is nothing to know.

[benlawrenz]

Thank you for explaining this better than my entire philosophy department!

[saeedbehmaram]

It's really hard to understand the whole video since I'm not a native English speaker, and there are really unfamiliar philosophy terms that you are using. However, I enjoy your content a lot.

[adarshkesarwani]

Ok, so he says that it is quite possible that the way a human observes this world is not the same as observed by the other species or the aliens. Like what if the yellow colour that we all know is not actually yellow and we all humans have this tendency to perceive that amount of frequency as yellow but any other may consider the same as some other colour. I find this video very interesting and will surely watch the other parts too.
Thank you.

[bearybearbear]

The way you explain Kant, I can understand. However, when I read the critique he uses big fancy words that I have to look up in the dictionary every 3 minutes, I have to conceptualize his concepts using words I don’t understand, and I have to understand his ideas through his confusing writing style. Pretty much sums of my study of Kant.

[rnktllama]

Great explanation! I understood the material and I'm able to actually explain it to others, which increases my comprehension even more.

[GeorgWilde]

It's funny. You have written (A or ~A) on the part of the picture which is the phenomenal realm. The law of the excluded middle is one of the most disputed things in logic and foundations of mathematics. She story is that it could apply only to objects with independent existence, but can fail when reasoning about subjective constructions like math. So by using the law of excluded middle, it is implicitly assumed that we are reasoning about noumena - baaad science.

[zerakhu]

Kant was just so ahead of his time wow

[shaggyrandy]

Rob Samartino on YouTube Hazard great discussion on Immanuel Kant

[elchappo]

Firas zahabi got me interested in philosophy

[Hic_Rhodus]

“Science is seeking empirical truth. Kant is seeking ultimate truth.” No. Nope. No. This is nowhere in the book. You’ve literally (mis)described Kant’s project as being the very thing that Kant wrote his book to criticise! (It’s in the actual title of the book!)

[markuslepisto]

The linses ARE the external world just like spectacles and even green spectacles..

[matthewmaguire]

Zen…though you see these letters and dots through your lens.

[rushenpatel]

How would one prove that the idea of time is ingrained in us when we’re born?

[williamwilliams]

Fun fact. Einstein read the Critique of pure reason at the age of 16 and gave credit to Kant for being a huge influence on his discoveries.

[roseleon]

I can´t wait for the rest of the videos!

[MilanStojanovic]

Are you going to remake the other three parts ?
Btw this sounds so interesting

[Habibhaadi]

Can anyone tell any example synthetic a priori?

[randywayne]

Kant is difficult to understand for good reason- because he was attempting to baffle us with bullshit.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, of which Kant has none.
How can someone such as Kant himself, who is supposedly ‘trapped’ behind ‘green spectacles’ ever even have knowledge of this ‘noumenal world’ ?
He doesn’t, and is dishonest.

[randywayne]

Bearing in mind that this is a guy who wrote a book called ‘critique of pure reason’ that’s the same as asking ‘do we need common sense’
Even children know we do.