As we delve deeper into Kant’s Metaphysics we begin to get a comprehension of how Kant believes that knowledge of the world can be possible. In this essay‚ I hope to explain clearly the way Kant believes that to be able to understand the world‚ humans’ project certain rules and regulation that objects must conform to so that they can be understood. I also intend to explain that it is through these rules and regulations that we will see two forms of human understanding that will appear with three
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Nature of Philosophy Philosophy * Comes from the 2 Greek words « philos -love » and « sophia -wisdom » * tasks that requires a deliberate effort to seek the truth. * The act of questioning or wanting to know initiates philosophy‚ and most of the time we relate philosophy to thinking. * Knowledge of all things‚ through this ultimate causes‚ aquired through the use of reasoning * Is the intense and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions Philosopher * Lover of
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At the trial of Socrates in Athens‚ 399 BC‚ Socrates has already been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the young men of Athens. In other words‚ he has criticized the government‚ and the leaders don’t like it. There is no prescribed sentence for these crimes. Instead‚ there is now a penalty phase of the trial and Socrates has to propose his own sentence. Then court decides between Socrates’ proposal and that of the prosecutor‚ which is death. The court probably would have expected him to propose
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rationalist started the period but as their ideas were articulated and read by other philosophers either people agree to them and improve. their thoughts or disagree to their claims and trying to debunk their claims. One of the extreme debunker of rationalism are the empiricists upholding that the medium of knowing is the use
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Through challenging common views of the world‚ they promoted a novel way of thinking that relied on skepticism and empiricism rather than accepting fundamental truths. For example‚ the Revolution’s astronomers like Copernicus and Kepler challenged the Church’s view that the Earth was selected by God as the center of the physical and spiritual universe. This questioning
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Questions : a. Describe the characteristics of philosophical reasoning! b. How is the use of reasoning into the framework of my thesis research plan? Answer : a. Characteristics of Philosophical Reasoning Before directly answering the questions above‚ I ’ll describe a little understanding of philosophical reasoning itself. According JujunSuriasumantri‚ Reasoning is a thinking process in drawing a conclusion in the form of knowledge. So reasoning is the thinking process started from empirical
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challenged by Copernicus’s heliocentric -Galileo’s telescope‚ primary vs. secondary characteristics -Isaac Newton‚ natural laws are absolute‚ space time‚ matter‚ force -empiricism (passive mind‚ induction) -Francis Bacon (scientific method‚ idols of tribe‚ cave‚ marketplace‚ theater‚ naturalistic approach to dreams) -rationalism (active mind acts upon sensory‚ deductive) -mechanism -Descartes (systematic doubt‚ “I think therefore I am”‚ nativists‚ dualist‚
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knowledge must come from experience. Others philosophers such as Descartes believe that knowledge is innate; this way of thinking is used by rationalist. In this paper I will discuss the difference between Descartes rationalism in his essays "The Meditations" and Locke’s empiricism in his essays "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding". I will then lend my understanding as to what I believe as the ultimate source of knowledge. Locke discards the suggestion of innate ideas. Locke believes
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that there are many ways to gain knowledge‚ some are better than others. The most important and reliable method is gaining knowledge via science and involving a merger of rationalism and empiricism at the same time. This way is a logistic way. In this way‚ hypotheses are testable. What’s more‚ we can merge rationalism and empiricism to adjust and reevaluate our position. Scientific research has three basic goals: to describe behavior‚ to predict behavior and to explain behavior. Prediction allows
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How have Western views of knowledge changed over time? Throughout history‚ cultures have held disparate views on the nature of knowledge. Epistemology‚ the branch of philosophy that focuses on basic questions such as: “What is knowledge? How do we know what we know?”‚ lies at the heart of these views. In Western culture‚ the answers to these basic questions have changed markedly over time. Throughout history‚ this evolution in philosophy has been inextricably linked to science and religion.
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