Kant's Refutation of Idealism 1/2

[xxprincessparklesxx]

wow... I owe you majorly! A + here I come! Great Job!!!

[2bsirius]

I'm glad you're reposting these...

[Mattprole]

I skipped Kant and many of the older philosophers and began with Schopenhauer; think it might be worth going back a bit?

[rrr8891]

lol, more like emanuel KUNT. LOL

[salokin888]

Hi, I'm taking the 3rd year Kant course at MTA and I was doing some research for my paper on the refutation of idealism, and came across your videos, which is a crazy coincidence. This video is the most helpful source I have found about this topic.

[zorio]

I'm glad you found it helpful. How are you liking Dr. Dryden as a prof? I actually got to interview her as a candidate for the Continental position, and despite some problems I had with her paper (an excerpt from her dissertation), I thought she was a solid candidate. Plus she underwent some of the most rigorous graduate examinations and came out alive, so she must know her shit.

[salokin888]

I'm really liking Dr Dryden as a prof. She manages to make Kant class interesting and even funny, which is quite a task. I think she is a really great addition to the department.

[whoisondrugs]

MEEP i am gnargnong a decendent of zothze from the realm of Zargamoft, Pardon me, do you have any grey poupon?

[touchingstoves]

Lol. I really could've used this a few months ago. :)

[2bsirius]

I am so glad to see you're back...I love to feed my addictions and you are one of them...LOVE YOUR VIDS! Anyone who throws in the term "For those who are following in the German pagination" has unconditionally earned my undying admiration! Thanks for coming back. I missed you SO MUCH!

[Newton1692]

Are you a Heideggerian?

[zorio]

Not really, no. I have some fundamental problems with Heidegger which I'm hoping to explore in my future Master's Thesis.

[Kierketaard]

Hope your next video goes up sometime this weekend. I want to think about it!

[GothicBitchGoddess]

Excellent..this is very good, very simply put!!!

[AmbientDisorder]

true enough! and a bad ideal at that....

searle says idealism (or at least the denial of realism) is egoic based - a function of people (egos) wanting the world NOT to be determinate at all. Their EGO wants to have a world created by their own minds, so they believe in what gets them that...

EXAMPLE: the movie "The Secret"

[zorio]

Kant is refuting Idealism, though. He is arguing for a deterministic world, in a sense, created by their own minds, which according to your statement is the opposite of what he should be arguing.

[AmbientDisorder]

i do, however, respect his some of his thinking re: 'categories' - as a precursor of cognitive science. but, again, not his conclusions/assumptions about the limits of knowledge (e.g., not respecting enough the visceral ways of 'knowing').

i'm more inclined to Merleau-Ponty's (incomplete) ontology and the explanatory elegance of Searle than this particular old dead German...

[AmbientDisorder]

there is a world - independent of our knowing it - and we can very easily encounter it viz our being-in-the-world as animals, and I agree with Kant that the only way we come to understand anything about it is through inextricably 'human' knowledge (and NOT absolute knowledge)...

and that's ok, in my opinion...

[AmbientDisorder]

Here is how I see the argument running in its most simplistic form:

P1 - I am aware of my existence as determined in time.

P2 - A necessary condition of time determination or the determination of successive states is something persisting in perception.

P3 - A necessary condition of the persisting thing functioning in time determination is that it is not inside me.

C1 - A necessary condition of the persisting thing not being inside me is that it is outside me.

[zorio]

I think that is right, yes.

[GothicBitchGoddess]

Excellent..this is very good, very simply put!!! idealism is just an ideal..haha

[joshsowords]

The cover of that books haunts me, I like Kant but hated deciphering his jargon.

[Trollschool]

Thanks for picking that selection, Zorio. Kant has a reputation for a being a dense writer, but it is generally agreed that he hit a few silver tones of clarity in the above passages - and you read them beautifully.

[zorio]

Thank you.

[MrCropper]

[5:43] "Kant successfully grounded science in philosophy"

As seen by Objectivism, Kant destroyed both philosophy AND science. This claim has been soundly demonstrated.

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