
Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Inductive Generalization of the Mind
In the empirical realm, everything is dee man, you're just a billiard ball. But in this what kant calls transcendental realm, it can also be the case that we think of ourselves as acting autonomously. And so we can sort of think of oursest be not that we know that, but that’s the way we have to act as if. That's how we get these truths of necessity about science,. Its not just inductive generalization in putting individual cases together; when we come up wit the universal law, it's reason getting involved. i sow the same thing is happening here with the with the mind and the soul. The world needs to be
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