Immanuel Kant and the Purity of Subjective Experience

Immanuel Kant and the Purity of Subjective Experience

Roger Scruton — 1 recording in the archive.

The book: Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton.

To not to go through life without having understood terms ethics you might as well come before but that's true a lot of things too is true Shakespeare and I think there isn't time to absorb it all we're agreed nevertheless this is one thing which I is for them to me to try to introduce you to and I've thought about it a while I think that the only way to do it in the time available is to begin from Katz general philosophy the philosophy has expanded on streaming of Pure Reason which is perhaps the most famous book on philosophy written in modern times and which purports to set limits to rational inquiry the critic of Pure Reason as the name of the book suggests and argues that we human beings or we rational beings rather have the ability to know the truth of our condition but we also are tempted to think that we can know as it were beyond the truth of our conditioner because reach beyond it and know the world as it is in itself independently of our own point of view on it and the critique of Pure Reason is really devoted to undermining that illusion saying that are being in other words that we can indeed have knowledge of the world Berlin is knowledge of the world from our perspective in a way that seems obvious but at the same time we can only have this knowledge if we have the capacity to reason and reason constantly tempts us towards the view that we can get beyond our perspective and see the world as a whole and as it is in itself works musics and also from any of the religious thoughts that we have in our reflective moments so he starts off the critique of Pure Reason by arguing that we do indeed have knowledge we have this knowledge because we have understanding but understanding depends upon experience and our experience can produce knowledge only if it is organized in a certain way and the argues that we organize our experience partly by situating it in space and time and partly by bringing it under concepts conceptualizing things and these concepts are that the primary concepts we grasp independently of experience here we cannot we can understand our experience because we apply concepts to it but the concepts themselves do…