And possible experience as a whole is no exception here. This also means that experience, as a mere possibility, is "contingent." The most important transcendental conditions for this experience, that is the dynamic principles, are then themselves "contingent." Consequently, these transcendental ...
of the circle, such as all points on its circumference being equidistant from the center, are known to us through reason alone, independent of any particular sensory experience or empirical observation. These properties are pure concepts based on comprehension. In the case of a circle, the proper...
a point of rest in the chain of causes, by conducting it to an unconditioned causality, which professes to have the power of spontaneous origination, but which, in its own utter blindness, deprives it of the guidance of rules, by which alone a completely connected experience is possible. ...
Kant was a firm believer in freedom of the will, however; he said that he could not prove that freedom of the will is possible. Rather, that we must realize ourselves as free because if we do not have free will, then we would not be held responsible for our actions. He explains ...
“must be sought in the sources of cognition a priori” (Kant, 2000; KU 5:182)– analogous to the claim that the universality of pure judgments of taste must be grounded on ”that subjective element that one can presuppose in all human beings (as requisite for possible cognitions in ...
this concept has both a descriptive and an evaluative aspect. If I were to conceive of my candidate actions in purely empirical terms, as objects of scientific inquiry, I would not be able to engage in decision-making about whether to undertake them. It is not possible to undertake an ...
say that their dreams are necessarily empty; there are already hints that moral experience can give content to the ideal of an “intelligible world.” Rousseau thus here acted upon Kant as a counterinfluence to Hume.
They belong, as it were, to the very framework of knowledge. But although they are indispensable for objective knowledge, the sole knowledge that the categories can yield is of objects of possible experience; they yield valid and real knowledge only when they are ordering what is given through...
There is a possible objection to the assimilation of wills to preferences that I have just made: that a preference, being something empirical, is not the same as a will, which is, in the pure Kantian doctrine, something noumenal (cf.KpVA74 f. = 43). To this objection I shall return ...
Here heartache can be interpreted in many different ways, depending on peoples taste. However, the way Taka interpreted it was in a song. When one goes through heartache, there can be various changes. For example, before experiencing heartache someone may have always greeted everyone with a brig...