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mybookrunsdeep 18-Nov-06, 11:36	Immanuel Kant Quotes The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend— and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective. All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the last harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reasons in all matters. Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is no fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace. *****Also, I have a new annotated game up, an English vs. Old Indian in 33 moves*****
rilke 19-Nov-06, 11:20	Kant's Biographer Kant's Biographer was asked to write the life of Kant, which he replied: :"Is hard to say about Kant's life, he never had a life". The biographer in a way was right......Kant routine of life was the same evryday of his life. People in town of Konigsberg can set their time while Kant pass by. It was called "the Philosopher walk."
rilke 20-Jan-07, 12:47	Holderin "Kant is our Moses" Holderin.
rilke 23-Jan-07, 00:02	I ought I ought, therefore I can."
ribbleton 29-Jan-07, 04:24	kant We 'ought' but we don't. A simple observation which destroys the fabric of kant's moral theory?
rilke 11-May-07, 13:27	Happiness "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination".
ribbleton 13-May-07, 07:24	David Hume `It not contrary to the demands of reason to prefer the destruction of the entire world to a scratch on my finger.` Only the judgement makes it so.
-zoe- 13-May-07, 11:26	Kant "Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
ribbleton 13-May-07, 11:31	J L mackie `Ethics inventing right and wrong` We `ought` to but we don`t.
rilke 13-May-07, 12:33	More Kant's quotes To be is to do.
ribbleton 01-Oct-07, 05:49	Immanuel Kant Aesthetic judgments may be culturally conditioned to some extent. Victorians in Britain often saw African sculpture as ugly, but just a few decades later, Edwardian audiences saw the same sculptures as being beautiful Writing in 1790, Immanuel Kant observes of a man that "If he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say instead: It is agreeable to me," because "Everyone has his own (sense of) taste". The case of "beauty" is different from mere "agreeableness" because, "If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things."[3]
ribbleton 08-Oct-07, 05:17	Kant On Supranationalism Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht", 1784; "Zum ewigen Frieden", 1795 A vision of a world state based on the voluntary union of all countries of this planet in order to avoid colonialism and in particular any future world war.
mybookrunsdeep 08-Oct-07, 06:41	Kant and it worked like a charm in 1914!
ribbleton 08-Oct-07, 13:54	Immanuel Kant War itself requires no special motive but appears to be engrafted on human nature; it passes even for something noble, to which the love of glory impels men quite apart from any selfish urges. Thus among the American savages, just as much as among those of Europe during the age of chivalry, military valor is held to be of great worth in itself, not only during war (which is natural) but in order that there should be war. Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, "War is an evil inasmuch as it produces more wicked men than it takes away." So much for the measures nature takes to lead the human race, considered as a class of animals, to her own end.
ribbleton 23-Oct-07, 04:56	Kant: The Categorical Imperative 'Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will to be a universal law'. The problem with this is that it seems to yield false positives (1) and (2) false negatives. (1) We should declare war on all countries that do not have the capitalist system. Clearly immoral but does not seem to be ruled out by the test (2)I shall play football on Sundays when pitches are available and everyone else is in church, which seems to fail the test yet be morally permissible
ribbleton 25-Jan-08, 08:06	A lyrical look at Kantianism Let us first divide cognition into rational analysis and sensory perception (which Descartes considered valueless). Now reason gives us concepts which are true but tautological; sensation gives us images whose content is phenomenal. Whatever greets our senses must exist in space and time for else it would be nowhere and nowhen and therefore slime; the space and time we presuppose before we sense reality must have innate subjective transcendental ideality. Thus space and time are forms of our perception whereby sensation’s synthesized in orderly array; the same must hold for rational conception: in everything we think, the laws of logic must hold sway. But a problem here arises with respect to natural science: while empirical in method, on pure thought it lays reliance. Although for Newton’s findings we to Newton give the glory Newton never could have found them if they weren’t known a priori. We know that nature governed is by principles immutable but how we come to know this is inherently inscrutable; that thought requires logic is a standpoint unassailable but for objects of our senses explanations aren’t available. So let's attempt to vivisect cognition by critical analysis in hope that we may find the link between pure thought and intuition: a deduction transcendental will shed light upon the mind. You may recall that space and time are forms of apprehension and therefore what we sense has spatiotemporal extension; whatever is extended is composed of a plurality but through an act of synthesis we form a commonality. If we are to be conscious of a single concrete entity each part of its extension must be given independently combining in a transcendental apperceptive unity to which I may ascribe the term “self-conscious” with impunity. The order of our various sensations arises from connections not beheld in sense alone; our self creates the rules of their relations and of this combination it is conscious as its own. While these rules correspond to scientific causal laws the question of their constancy remains to give us pause; but once we recollect the source of our self-conscious mind, to this perverse dilemma a solution we may find. The self is nothing but its act of synthesis sublime; this act must be the same to be self-conscious over time. The rules for combination of its selfhood form the ground so what we perceive tomorrow by today’s laws must be bound. These constant laws whereby we shape experience are simply those which regulate our reason: that is plain. So don’t ask why the stars display invariance -- the Cosmos is produced by your disoriented brain!
rilke 02-Jun-08, 12:34	More Kant Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
rilke 09-Jan-11, 21:05	To be To be is to do.
rilke 15-Mar-11, 03:57	Science and Wisdom Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
rilke 01-Jul-11, 08:58	Reason There is nothing higher than reason.
rilke 03-Sep-12, 14:42	Love Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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