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Michel Foucault’s ”Lectures on the Will to Know” (Part 1/4)

Theory & Philosophy

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Kant's Knowledge Is the Synthesis of Perception, Consciousness and Humanity

For Kant, knowledge refers to the synthesis of all possible perception with your cognitive abilities. And that's kind of a miraculous thing if we really consider just how arbitrary it is that humans exist at all. These are different conceptions of truth and knowledge but they intersect in one way or another. That'll put us into week 13, because I'm going to continue on the train which didn't occur during my visit to France.

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