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PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Kant's Sense of Objectivity, a Sense of Constructivity, Isn't Reading Into Him

Rigt: Kant was not lamenting in the way that nica seems to be doing here. He's making a joke about this concept of objectivity, where basically the concepts according to which we make judgments about things are the same concepts that we actually construct these things with. When we make a judgment, objectivity involves coming back to the objects we've constructed with the same concepts we've constructed them with and finding them there. Essentially, it's sort of a weak conception of objectivity. We get access to appearances that we've essentially constructed. Rigt: In bringing up the social characteristics truth as trust, he's merely pointing out that that happens to be the way things are

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