Kant's philosophy - The table of categories as the key to Kant's whole philosophical system

[@vp4744]

This is probably your best video thus far. I really liked the way you connect the dots from many earlier topics into this one video. I also liked all the examples because they fit more with the topics. Great video! On a side note, I have a real life anecdote about multiverse. My college once invited Jon Witten (of Multiverse fame) to give a lecture. The senior most professor at the time was Doctor Chandra, the nobel laureate winner for discovering black holes. He reluctantly agreed to attend the Witten lecture. It was a three-hour lecture/seminar in auditorium that could seat over 500. It was jam packed with many standing outside listening. Witten started off with a bang and wrote about 200 formulas with impressive speed on the black board. But Doctor Chandra at that point asked if Witten was doing anything else besides math? Witten was stunned. Doctor Chandra got up and left the room. Because of his advanced age, he walked ever so slowly while the entire audience watched in shocked silence. Apparently in 60 years, Doctor Chandra had never walked out of a seminar. After about 10 minutes the room again fell silent when everyone noticed Doctor Chandra walk back to his seat. Everyone watched him as he reached down the seat and picked his umbrella that he had fortten, and then walked out again. The whole room erupted in laughter. To this day they say multiverse was so monumental to science that Doctor Chandra walked out twice.

[@Jonathan.Ivo.Loewer]

Thank you. I am glad you liked it! I was looking forward to this one. I am glad I can finally refer back to it, whenever Kant’s architectonic will come up from now on, because there will be many more examples of his usage of the table of categories in future videos. Thank you for the great anecdote! - Though somewhere in the multiverse there must be a universe where he walked out thrice even! On a more serious note: I am not a physicist and I am mindful not to be what Kant calls an egoist of science (see my lecture What is wisdom?) who talks about a field he has no expertise in. But from what little I know about the current issues and debates in physics, it seems to me it might profit from physicists taking note of one of Kant’s key insights. And from this anecdote, it seems that Dr. Chandra did: That thoughts without viewing are empty. We always need both, the intellect and sensuality. Our concepts alone cannot only not be proven to be real, we can’t even know if they are possible, unless we relate them at least indirectly to something that can be experienced and observed. Kant did away with empty speculative metaphysics to make room for natural science, he didn’t foresee natural science too (at least parts of it) turning into empty speculation.