Talk:Immanuel Kant/Archive 1

message: Hi, this page is coming along nicely, although there is obviously much more work to be done.  Would there be any interest in a glossary of Kant's philosophical vocabulary?  I'm thinking it would be nice to have such a list, with brief discussion of each term and key quotations showing Kant's use of it.  I would be happy to get the ball rolling if there's some interest from others...
--N9b 18:08, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is a good idea, but I should think one would have to limit the glossary to some of the most important terms so that the article didn't become unweildy.  An alternative would be a separate page with a link to the article. Anyway, good luck. icut4u 02:57, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glossary? 

message: I'm reading this book (Groundwork on the metaphysics of morals) now, but I have to turn it back to the library soon. Does anyone know where I can find it online? It's not on www.gutenberg.org.
And it's actually quite expensive to buy (10£) at play.com (considering the much more extensive Cr. of P Reason is 5£).
--Benjaminmyklebust 15:41, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/texts/kant/kantcon.htm Enjoy --Malathion 19:14, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Groundwork on the metaphysics of morals 

message: I also cut this text from the Influence section. Perhaps it could go into the summary of the first critique, or not, but someone should proof it first:
In this way, Kant was correct in asserting that he had brought about a "Copernican revolution" in philosophy. According to Kant, Copernicus's revolution in the understanding of the cosmos lay in taking the position of the observer into account. This explained why it looks as though the sun revolves around the earth even though in reality the earth revolves around the sun. Taking the observer's position into account prevents the unaware projection of the observer's perception or point of view onto the picture of the universe. Kant saw his own Copernican revolution in philosophy, analogously, as consisting in taking the position of the knower into account and thereby preventing the unaware projection of the knower's way of thinking ("pure reason") onto the philosophical map of reality. According to Kant, it was philosophers unawarely doing this that had created the illusions of metaphysics that dominated the prior history of philosophy. Kant saw this revolution, in turn, as being part of "Enlightenment" (as conceived of in the Age of Enlightenment) and the creation of an enlightened citizenry and society freed from dogmatism and irrational authority.
This need for self-reflexivity generated an innovation in philosophical style and writing which for many has been unfortunate. Prior to Kant, philosophers wrote either in an engaging "dialogic" style as in Plato or Berkeley, or in breezy essay form as in Montaigne or Hume, or in a schematic form as in Spinoza, where the difficult, symbolic and "geometrical" passages are supplemented by accessible remarks. But by taking self-reflexivity into account in the Copernican revolution, Kant changed style to one which demanded that the philosopher, as writer, has to be ever-conscious about his very tools and for this reason more ready to coin terms of art and devise special purpose techniques (such as Kant's infamous antinomies) which the reader has to absorb before he, and Kant, can proceed. For this reason, Kantian heirs in 20th century French and German schools tend to have a "jargon" laden style in emulation of Kant, which makes English, American, and Australian philosophers, who have bypassed Kant in favor of Hume (and, especially in the case of Australian philosophy, the philosophers of Scotland's enlightenment) resentful of what seems to be deliberate opacity.
--Anthony Krupp 18:26, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not influence as much as Kant's self-perception plus editorializing (i.e., needs work) 

message: Substituted at 20:32, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment