This document summarizes Kant's distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge. It explains that a priori knowledge is independent of experience, while a posteriori knowledge depends on experience. It also discusses Kant's identification of analytic and synthetic propositions, and his view that synthetic a priori knowledge is possible in the form of concepts like causality that structure our experience. The document concludes by noting that while synthetic a priori knowledge is possible, it is limited to phenomena and we cannot know things as they are in themselves.
This is a work that I made in 10th grade about Kant and his theory. Portuguese version available. I hope you like it and share it.
P.S.: In the biography, instead of actually saying it, we did a little role playing of an interview to the philosopher in which on member is the interviewer and the other is Kant. While we were doing the interview the following songs were playing:
- U Can't Touch This
- Just give me a Reason (for the more emotional part)
When it's done well, it has a great impact in the class room. The script is at the end of the presentation.
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These slides are for a course called Introduction to Philosophy at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada. They talk about Chapters 1, 2, 4 and 5 of John Stuart Mill's book called Utilitarianism. There is also a bit at the end about act and rule utilitarianism
This is a work that I made in 10th grade about Kant and his theory. Portuguese version available. I hope you like it and share it.
P.S.: In the biography, instead of actually saying it, we did a little role playing of an interview to the philosopher in which on member is the interviewer and the other is Kant. While we were doing the interview the following songs were playing:
- U Can't Touch This
- Just give me a Reason (for the more emotional part)
When it's done well, it has a great impact in the class room. The script is at the end of the presentation.
Hope you like it and please share.
These slides are for a course called Introduction to Philosophy at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada. They talk about Chapters 1, 2, 4 and 5 of John Stuart Mill's book called Utilitarianism. There is also a bit at the end about act and rule utilitarianism
IMMANUEL KANT MORALITY PERSPECTIVE
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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IMMANUEL KANT MORALITY PERSPECTIVE
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Kenzhekulov Maisalbek from International Relations Department of International Ataturk Alatoo University is talking about the REALISM .Subject: Political Science
Lecturer: Dr. Ibrahim Koncak
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1. CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Presented by:
Arnel O. Rivera
LPU-Cavite
Based on the presentation of:
Mr. Alexander Rodis
Lesson 4
2. A PRIORI AND A POSTERIORI KNOWLEDGE
Kant distinguishes between empirical and a
posteriori knowledge derived from sense experience
and pure or a priori knowledge which is completely
independent of experience.
1. A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE is the knowledge which
comes before (prior to) sense experience and is
therefore independent of sense experience. This is the
emphasis of the rationalist.
Ex. âJustice is good.â
âAll triangles have three sides.â
3. 2. A POSTERIORI KNOWLEDGE is knowledge which
comes after (posterior to) sense experience and is
therefore dependent on sense experience. This is the
empiricist emphasis.
Ex. "There is a cup on this table."
âAll swans are white."
4. He establishes the two identifying marks
by which pure or a priori knowledge may be
recognized and distinguished from
empirical or a posteriori knowledge:
1. Necessity
If we have a proposition which in being
thought is thought as necessary, it is an a
priori judgment; and if, besides, it is not
derived from any proposition except one
which also has the validity of a necessary
judgment, it is an absolutely a priori
judgment.
5. 2. Universality
Experience never confers on its judgments
true or strict but only assumed and comparative
universality, through induction. We can properly
only say, therefore, that so far as we have
previously observed, there is no exception to this
or that rule. If, then, a judgment is thought with
strict universality, that is, in such manner that no
exception is allowed as possible, it is not derived
from experience, but is valid absolutely a priori
.
6. ī Empirical universality is only an arbitrary extension of a
validity holding in most cases to one which holds in all, for
instance, in the proposition, 'all bodies are heavy'. When,
on the other hand, strict universality is essential to a
judgment, this indicates a special source of knowledge,
namely, a faculty of a priori knowledge.
ī Necessity and strict universality are thus sure criteria of a
priori knowledge, and are inseparable from one another.
But since in the employment of these criteria the
contingency of judgments is sometimes more easily shown
than their empirical limitation, or, as sometimes also
happens, their unlimited universality can be more
convincingly proved than their necessity, it is advisable to
use the two criteria separately, each by itself being
infallible.
7. HE DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN ANALYTIC AND
SYNTHETIC PROPOSITION OR KNOWLEDGE
ANALYTIC KNOWLEDGE
ī They are knowledge that is true by definition but
not bearing on reality.
ī When this type of knowledge is express in the
proposition, the predicate is contained in the
subject.
ī They are logically true, and this means you could
not deny them.
ī This is an A is A type of proposition.
Ex. All barking dogs bark.
All triangles have three sides.
8. SYNTHETIC KNOWLEDGE
ī They are knowledge that is not logically certain, but
bearing on reality.
ī In synthetic proposition, the predicate adds something
to the subject, and thus two ideas are âsynthesizedâ in
the proposition. It affirms or denies the existence of
something and it informs us about things, it really
does tell us something about the actual universe.
ī This is an A is B type of proposition.
Ex. It is snowing in Alaska.
Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit
Dogs bark.
9. SYNTHETIC A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE
Both rationalist and empiricist accept analytic
propositions as a priori certain and that they both at
least some accept the synthetic proposition as a
posteriori probable.
But can we possess any knowledge that is both a priori
certain and synthetically informative?
IS THERE SYNTHETIC A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE?
10. ACCORDING TO KANT, YES!
He explains the nature of synthetic a priori
knowledge both as being existentially informative and
also bearing the marks of necessity and universality,
something unaccountable for on the basis of
experience.
11. REASONS:
ī The ideas such as substance and causality do not make
their way into our minds through experience, but are
âa priori categories of the understandingâ, which molds
and shape and in fact constitute our experience.
ī That is substance and causality are part of what we
mean experience.
Ex. âEvery event must have a causeâ
ī It is a synthetic truth but also possess a priori
universality and necessity.
ī We have to experience things as causally related
because that is the only way the mind create
experience.
12. ī Although our knowledge begins with experience, it
does not follow that it arises from experience. For it is
possible that even our experience is a compound of
that which we receive through impressions, and of that
which our own faculty of knowledge (incited only by
sensuous impressions) supplies from itself.
ī He insisted the role of a priori concepts as conditions
of experience and the epistemological consequences of
this:
âIf by them only it is possible to think any object
of experience, it follows that they refer by
necessity and a priori to all objects of experience.â
13. Synthetic a priori judgments are characterized by :
(a) an a priori element which is universal and
necessary
(b) an empirical element which applies to the world.
ī âSynthetic a priori judgments are only possible when
we relate the formal conditions of a priori intuition,
the synthesis of imagination and the necessary unity
of this synthesis in a transcendental apperception, to a
possible empirical knowledge in general â.
ī Thus there is in the "synthetic a priori" that which is
not derived from experience, but yet applies to
experience.
14. ī There are synthetic a priori judgments:
(1) We have these in mathematics
Ex. 7+5=12
(2) We have these in Physics: the concept of cause:
"Everything which happens has its cause."
(3) We ought to have these in Metaphysics
"The world must have a first beginning.â
ī Metaphysics ought to contain nothing but a priori
synthetic judgments - Thus the general problem of
Metaphysics becomes the general problem of a priori
synthetic judgments.
15. THE LIMITS OF REASON
ī One of the implications of Kantâs analysis is that we can know
nothing of reality as it is in itself (what Kant calls the noumenal
world) but only as it appears to us through experience (he calls
this the phenomenal world)
ī The reason is clear: The a priori categories or concepts of the
understanding are constitutive of experience, and therefore they
have no legitimate application beyond experience.
ī Causality for example applies only to objects of possible
experience. And when we try to apply such concepts beyond
experience, what results in nonsense and absurdities.
ī Thus if we have gained a priori certainty and universality for
synthetic knowledge, it has been at the cost of giving up any
possible knowledge of reality beyond space and time.