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071018 this is a much later add-on (half dozen years): i have not revisited this book, but read the review again. it is hard to believe information technology is (but) six years but then i accept read many thinkers and thought many thoughts since, and though this might exist thought elementary, this book is sort of my introduction to 'thinking for myself', that is, though i had read some philosophy before i had incorporated it as received noesis, had non thou
if yous like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com071018 this is a much subsequently addition (half-dozen years): i have not revisited this book, merely read the review again. it is difficult to believe it is (only) six years just and then i have read many thinkers and thought many thoughts since, and though this might be thought unproblematic, this book is sort of my introduction to 'thinking for myself', that is, though i had read some philosophy before i had incorporated it equally received noesis, had not thought well-nigh the thought, had non tried to critically place or dissimilarity, had non allowed myself to listen in to the history of philosophical conversations, and this book Kant changed all that. office of my previous disquisitional timidity was reasonable doubt i knew enough or had read enough and that thinkers while not beyond me- i have e'er been unreasonably confident of my intellect- were talking, thinking, referring, to an entire realm of understanding i did not know. this book did not suddenly educate me all just brought me to understand that this is a process and marvel and joy of thought that requires no detail knowledge to at least begin... so kant has remained in my background, in secure enlightenment openness, and has led me towards by and large 'continental' thinkers every bit they elaborate and critique everything of 'a priori synthetic sentence'... so he may exist difficult to read merely not to read of, to the extent that matters, and the ideas and the joy of thought are immortal...
270512 first review: in that location is a history behind my reading this book that goes dorsum a few years. there is a history behind my appreciation of kant that goes back about 27 years to undergraduate university...
i was perhaps also young to really honey kant dorsum then, but i call back my survey course text. i practise not fifty-fifty think if i actually read information technology and so, if i went to those classes. i was a mixed upwards kid. i practice remember whenever i did read it, reaching the radical skepticism suggested by hume, feeling suddenly lost, depressed, convinced that my faith in science was misplaced. the idea was that when we see 1 billiard ball striking some other and that one moves, we are seeing transfer of momentum. only where is this 'momentum'? how tin nosotros say it moves this? i was so convinced by this argument, i was ready to give up. then i read kant, read about intuitions, sensibilities, categories- almost phenomena and noumena- and was so happy. everything i have read in philosophy since, has been in some fashion trying to compensate that intellectual joy of understanding...
i was set up to exist disappointed with Kant, i tried reading his critiques simply they never worked for me. i had over the years become fascinated by so-chosen continental philosophers, and though kant was a large name it was more than descartes and hegel they refer to. then, most two years agone, i decided to educate myself about some of the history of philosophy.i have ever read asynchronously- equally if the ideas were independent of order and culture of the time, equally if i could pace outside time, as if i could judge them this way. and so i had not really read much more survey, the ancients, the moderns, leading upwardly to the gimmicky. everyone seems to refer to older texts which refer to even older texts... information technology seemed i would have to read also many. then i decided kant would be far enough by because he seemed to deliberately try and sum up everything previous...
so i bought Kant. somehow i always constitute others to read. last year i had read about 231 pages when for some reason i stopped. i had so many other books i wanted to read, even other philosophers. when i decided to read him this time, after struggling through heidegger, i decided to start from the kickoff again. this was a proficient idea. this time i seemed to empathize. this fourth dimension i was rightly amazed. this time i could see why he could be thought 'the' enlightenment philosopher. this time i love kant...
why? after recounting some bio, this book straight enters kant's natural philosophy- his 'copernican revolution'-the pure forms of sensible intuition, contributions of understanding, metaphysical deduction, transcendental deduction, principles of empirical judement, refuting idealism...leading through all this preparatory idea to his critique of metaphysics...
if it is true any philosopher, like any author, has one true obsession and everything else is built on that- i would nominate kant's as the thought of synthetic a priori judgement, of transcendental idealism, that nosotros apprehend the world through a priori understandings- such every bit the successive impression of lodge and contiguity we call causal- that are facts of our minds in receiving the world, and before anything in the world itself. information technology is a fact of our being human, beingness rational beings. this is lynchpin for everything else. ideas of pure reason, metaphysics of self, world, god, toward the thought of systematic knowledge of the world...
and kant goes on, in role two of this book focusing on freedom. there is the famous categorical imperative and how it is derived and argued for co-ordinate to universal police, natural law, humanity as an end in itself. kant tries to connect freedom to possibilities of radical evil, if we are to allow true skillful. kant contrasts the determinacy of the natural earth to the moral necessity of freedom for the man world, insisting on necessary postulate of god and immortality of the soul, on the idea of sufficient reason, of intelligence organizing the world and humans, of the rise of republican states and the doctrine of human rights...
and kant goes on even more than. he rationally examines all our duties, how in the end it is the categorical imperative to never make another a means rather than end, that buttress all his ideas of duties. and how these duties extend from common respect for all others, not some religious or group identity. nosotros accept duties to ourselves, to others, duties inherent and acquired. this is non argued by each of us having a soul or some other religious obligation, this is argued, this is idea, that we are homo and all humans have duties to all humans...
fifty-fifty when i disagree with him, retrieve him dated, i must admit kant might not have known all the answers but he certainly knew many questions. and the idea of ultimate comprehensibility of the universe, the idea of scientific knowledge, the idea of all kant's ideas has regulated and inspired the western globe-view for centuries. so maybe it is all kant i love, and only incidentally this volume. just so this is the first volume that i have read and understood kant. no jargon, no hard ideas in difficult linguistic communication, and all, all, all of it holds together.
i almost feel like trying the critiques once again...
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Just it didn't make a good intro to Kant at all times. Some chapters were more introductory than others, and it shows through sometimes the very lengthy and appreciable explanations of what is meant in a item paragraph. But Guyer tends to also wander off in his own critique of Kant, this makes some pages not appropriate for an introduction and it tin can be tricky to run across where Kant ends and Guyer'due south interpretation begins. We mus This is a tricky one. The book was definitely interesting at large.
But it didn't make a good intro to Kant at all times. Some chapters were more introductory than others, and it shows through sometimes the very lengthy and appreciable explanations of what is meant in a item paragraph. But Guyer tends to likewise wander off in his own critique of Kant, this makes some pages not appropriate for an introduction and it can be tricky to come across where Kant ends and Guyer's estimation begins. We must likewise accost the whole book is based around Guyer's interpretation of Kant which isn't necessarily valid, lots of scholars such as Allison had a more than benevolent view of Kant.
But I must give that it was still a good intro, not an excellent one, and the formatting/editing of the text was wonderful. ...more
In that location is some discussion, necessarily, about parts of his thinking that haven't stood upwards that well into modern times, but I appreciated that it mostly concentrated on what I was hoping to take away from this--ie. Kant'due south thought information technology
I don't take a lot of Kant books to compare it to, but this did an fantabulous job of working through a big and (in my experience upwards to this point) impenetrably dense body of work, and drawing out the major themes that I had read well-nigh, but not fully gotten a handle on.In that location is some discussion, necessarily, about parts of his thinking that haven't stood up that well into modern times, but I appreciated that information technology by and large concentrated on what I was hoping to take abroad from this--ie. Kant's thought itself-- and didn't devious too much into "what's incorrect with Kant."
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Guyer has written nine books on Kant and Kantian themes, and has edited and translated a number of Kant's works into English. In improver to his piece of work on Kant, Guyer has published on many other figur
Paul Guyer is an American philosopher. He is a leading scholar of Immanuel Kant and of aesthetics and has served as Jonathan Nelson Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Chocolate-brown University since 2012.Guyer has written ix books on Kant and Kantian themes, and has edited and translated a number of Kant's works into English. In improver to his work on Kant, Guyer has published on many other figures in the history of philosophy, including Locke, Hume, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and others. Guyer's Kant and The Claims of Cognition (Cambridge University Printing) is widely considered to be one of the virtually pregnant works in Kant scholarship. Recent works by Guyer include Knowledge, Reason, and Gustatory modality: Kant'due south Response to Hume (Princeton Academy Press), and The Cambridge Companion to Kant'southward Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press).
His other areas of specialty include the history of philosophy and aesthetics. His iii-volume work A History of Modern Aesthetics was published by Cambridge University Press in February 2014. Guyer was President of the American Society for Aesthetics in 2011–13. Guyer was too President of the Eastern Partition of the American Philosophical Clan in 2011-12.
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