Emanuel Kant

Question 1

why did emanuel kant become philsopher

Answer 1

reaction to Hume

Question 2

what are the 2 distinctions emanuel kant makes

Answer 2

1) kinds of knowledge

2) kinds of statements

Question 3

what types of kinds of knowledge is there

Answer 3

a) a. priori

b) a posteriori

Question 4

what is a. priori kind of knowledge and example

Answer 4

true by definition; doesn’t depend on experience; known beforehand
eg. “a bachelor is an unmarried man”

Question 5

what is a. posteriori kind of knowledge and example

Answer 5

not universal, comes from particulars and is knowledge that comes from experience
eg. “my brother is a bachelor”

Question 6

what are the types of kinds of statements

Answer 6

a) analytical

b) synthetic

Question 7

what is an analytic kind of statement

Answer 7

relation of ideas

eg.”bachelor is unmarried man”

Question 8

what is a synthetic kind of statment

Answer 8

synthesizing two types of knowledge, expanding, matters of fact
eg. “my brother is a bachelor”

Question 9

what question did Kant have

Answer 9

can we have synthetic knowledge that is a. priori

Question 10

what example does kant use to connect synthetic and a. priori

Answer 10

5 + 7 = 12
exp. 5, 7, and 12 are #’s that by themself, doesn’t always equal what’s on opposite sides of the =
THEREFORE, can arrange each number in new was to give new information

Question 11

what did copernican revolution do

Answer 11

change the way philsophy was looked at

Question 12

what was the assumption philsophers had before kant

Answer 12

the world/reality shapes the mind

Question 13

what did kant believe about human nature

Answer 13

the mind shapes the world/reality

Question 14

how did kant believe the mind shaped the world

Answer 14

the mind = constructed in certain say that it imposes idea onto an object

Question 15

what does kant use to support that the mind shapes the world/reality

Answer 15

categories and experience

Question 16

what are categories

Answer 16

mental glasses that allow us to see the world
glasses = a. priori
world = synthetic

Question 17

what is a type of category

Answer 17

causality

Question 18

what is causality

Answer 18

way in which we experience something

Question 19

what is experience

Answer 19

perception + category
perception = synthetic
category = a. priori

Question 20

what 2 words does kant use to explain world and perception

Answer 20

noumena and phenomena

Question 21

what is noumena

Answer 21

the real world

Question 22

what is phenomena

Answer 22

the way things appear to us

Question 23

what did kant say about the real world

Answer 23

we can never really know the real world because we are using categories to see the world

Question 24

why is a.priori sythnthetic important compared to hume

Answer 24

it gives certitude

Question 25

what was Kant’s ultimate goal

Answer 25

to regain certitude and universality

Question 26

what did kant turn to for his ethics

Answer 26

reason

Question 27

what is kant’s reason in terms of ethics called

Answer 27

“good will”

Question 28

what is good will

Answer 28

commands, which are broken down to hypothetical and categorical

Question 29

what did kant say about behavior and universal law (ACT 1)

Answer 29

act so that individual maxim may become universal law

Question 30

what is the thing that creates moral law/responsibility

Answer 30

duty

Question 31

why does duty create moral responsibility

Answer 31

allows so that personal principle becomes universal -> FINAL TEST WHAT IS GOOD OR BAD

Question 32

what did kant say about interactions between humans (ACT 2)

Answer 32

Act so that humanity is never morally as a means but as an end

Question 33

why an end instead of means

Answer 33

simply being valuable in themselves is the end

Question 34

whats the difference between hyptohetical and categorical commands

Answer 34

hypothetical - dont have to do

categorical - imperatives that are personal principles (maxim)