Kant's Copernican Revolution
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Kant's Metaphysics
Kant was rigorous a philosopher, and he set up an extremely demanding system. But at some level he also wants to say that this capacity for structuring the world is something that all of us as human beings are capable of. Pure reason is something that belongs to all human beings in so far as they have capacities for conceptualizing and taking in things through the senses. The whole question of objectivity is problem tized in a way that i think kan would be horrified by, but that he certainly inaugurated by detaching it from this deep kind of metaphysics in the first place. In our time with briln Tillotson we'll get a lot out of melviln
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