Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic (1of 4 - introduction and overview)

[@christie_quite_contrary1657]

I cannot thank you enough for these videos. I am a first year philosophy major and have been having a lot of trouble understanding Kant. Your teaching method is clear and concise. Admittedly I am studying in my second language, but, I have more than once found myself wishing that you were my professor. Please keep them coming.

[@johncracker5217]

Sugrue and Rosenfeld are my fav KZbin philosophers.

[@Paraselene_Tao]

58:20 when Pearson asks about staring off into space. I used to do that more when I was a teenager. Maybe it's a form of meditation, but at the time I didn't recognize my activity as meditation. Until 2008, I lived in the woods of Wentworth, North Carolina. Sometimes when I came home from school I sat and I relaxed in the car. Maybe a window was rolled down so I could hear the wind in the trees. I tried my best to quiet my focus on Everything inside me: my senses, feelings and thoughts. My sight of the trees began to flatten and the color and forms smeared together like an impressionist painting. The sounds of the wind blowing though the trees and the birds singing faded into a distant humming and rumbling. The feelings of my breathing, my heartbeat, and my body in the chair were noticeable, but one by one I let go of these feelings. My mind comfortably wondered from thought to thought until that too was quiet. For a while I sat serenely and comfortably calm. Words don't do the activity justice. It's like being asleep and awake at the same time. Small botherances come and leave. It's almost the unperturbedness that ancient geeks philosophers spoke about. I lost a sense of time and all my worries about everything disappeared. When I stirred free of this activity, I felt clean and calm like I woke up from a restful sleep.

[@dubbelkastrull]

13:14 What Hume thinks of Metaphysics 19:52 bookmark 11:21 bookmark

[@WoodliceCC]

What took YOU so long to get started as a philosopher??? 🤣 Thank you for posting these videos for all the world to enjoy. Love your style, I haven't been a student for a long time but love learning and this is a fantastic set of lectures. Much love x

[@deforeestwright2469]

I just read Critique of Pure Reason via audiobook (I’m unsure which edition/version). If I remember right Kant wrote off the “analytic a posteriori” as self-contradictory. He uses the combinatorics of analytic/synthetic/a priori/a posteriori to generate these four terms, eliminates analytic a posteriori, and then asks if synthetic a priori is possible, because if it is, then metaphysics is possible. He argues that the former is possible and then tries to deduce a sketch of the latter. . .sort of an outline for future metaphysics that develops into its own metaphysical system.

[@TarekFahmy]

this is an amazing job. can we get details of the readings you assign?

[@garrettfisher9385]

These videos are great, its nice listening to them alongside a few text summaries.

[@tariqshabirbhatti4793]

Sir great to learn from you about project of Kant...

[@darrellee8194]

Wait. Shouldn't Hume's Fork itself be consigned to the flames?

[@sonofaput]

I am no longer in school, and am not planning to go back, as I work in a trade. But I wanted to read Georg F. Hegel; this is how I've ended up here. My background is so different from that of everyone else commenting here, probably from that of anyone else interested in this video, it's not even funny 😅

[@brandonfiore8982]

I tried to read this book over and over again, and I can't get past the first page.

[@deforeestwright2469]

Close on “intuition”, but I think it’s a little more nuanced than Hume’s “impressions”. Hume doesn’t really use the term “impressions” consistently. A lot of times he refers to “sensations” and occasionally “perceptions”. From my reading of Kant I would say something like this: Kant thinks we get empirical information about reality from our senses (sensibility), but properly speaking that is a physical interaction. “Intuitions” are the internal, subjective, correlate to that. Broadly I think it’s a similar concept to the idea of qualia, but more specific to the experience of a thing rather than the experience of being such and such a thing. Sensibility is my ability to taste a sip of wine at all, while intuition is what that wine tastes like to me without any particular judgment on my part (like whether I like it or not).

[@deforeestwright2469]

Maybe more specifically, sensibility is whether I can taste the wine or not physically. “Intuition” is when I get an immediate impression of having tasted something, maybe even as specific as “the taste of wine”, maybe even as specific as some of the tasting notes of that wine (melon, stone fruits, tannins, or whatever). As long as the impression is immediate. Where things get complicated (maybe just to my mind) is the point where “judgement” and “the understanding” come in to it. Judgement, by his account is certainly involved in enjoying the wine or not. Judgements based on intuition and the understanding might be involved in discerning notes in the wine. . .but yeah I think should stop there. Sorry I am new to Kant but he is fresh in my mind, so I thought I’d throw in my two cents. Hope that helped and wasn’t just confusing. . . 😂

[@johncracker5217]

Mind or Geist IS supernatural

[@reedoei636]

Always a little strange to hear people talking about things that are true by definition as being uninteresting, when we know from math that the consequences of definitions and axioms tend not to be so obvious.

[@adamrosenfeld9384]

That's a fair point. If it helps at all, this is mostly a rhetorical device to try to steer the audiences focus toward synthetic knowledge for the sake of the lesson. I would happily concede that there's plenty of interesting stuff that we come to know analytically.

[@Taino137]

I am so glad i didn't have this charlatan as a professor.

[@anonpsude281]

can you elaborate lol

[@Taino137]

@@anonpsude281 I can't remember, but what i do like about him is that he reminds me of a young Richard Dreyfuss. As far as the lecture goes, i got nothing, only questions. Maybe is that i find philosophy a waste of time, save for The Republic, i've read that like 5 times. Reading Nietzsche, well that's time of my life i'll never get back. I found that i think just like Nietzsche, except i respect others thinking differently, he did not. I college no matter how many questions i prepared from the readings, they would always be answered before i could ask them; i hated that. If you like his lectures, go for it. I'm just doing a little research: trying to put in perspective Transcendentalism v Existentialism > Liberalism v Conservatism, and Metaphysics v Stoicism. So what i get from this is that Metaphysics would be the branch of philosophy that thinks about things and don't do anything while others e.g. Euclid, Mandelbrot, Leonardo DaVinci, Nicola Tesla, etc, actually do things to make this world a better place, or in the case of DaVinci, a more beautiful place.

[@kjmontalv1]

@@Taino137 Respect to my taino brethren but you're too cynical (perhaps like Nietzsche). All the accomplishments of these "doers" you speak of can be traced at least in some form to their philosophy

[@Taino137]

@@kjmontalv1 Thank you, you give me something to think about.

[@Taino137]

Sorry, i've been thinking of a succinct elaboration, but i've fallen short. But, just at the beginning and his use of "Uhm, and $h!t." I hated that. Although, i appreciate his passion for philosophy, but i think it has been a waste of my time. e.g. instead of reading Kant, Hume, and Nietzsche, i would recommend Les Misérables with a comparison to The Grapes of Wrath. And, i know it's a stretch, but a read of Walden with a comparison to Plato's Republic (the Republic having all those people, and all those concepts as opposed to Walden which is all about the self.) Unfortunately for me, i read these 4 books years before getting into philosophy, and i haven't found anything in philosophy that makes me ponder as the Republic, or Les Misérables.