Thinker
3 readings
Immanuel Kant
Thinker · 3 readings
Kant examines the conditions of experience, moral lawgiving and aesthetic judgment. These inquiries place different demands on what a claim can establish.
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Guided course · Module 10 · Lesson 56
Can a moral rule bind everyone?
Kant tests a false promise by universalizing its maxim, and describes autonomy as giving oneself a law. The lesson considers objections to treating universalization as a general decision procedure.
Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 81
What can art disclose that an argument may not?
Kant separates aesthetic judgment from private liking, and Tagore asks what a copied style loses. What do rhythm, sequence and silence contribute beyond a work’s paraphrased message?
Guided course · Module 10 · Lesson 55
What must experience already involve?
Kant asks what conditions any objective experience must meet. The lesson separates those conditions from knowledge of particular causes and from things considered in themselves.