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The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason.

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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge.
When rightly employed, the perceptual and cognitive powers match up the right way with the real world and ground the knowledge-claims of the developed sciences. However, there is a strong tendency to stretch these processes beyond the permissible boundaries and seek what Kant refers to as "transcendental ideas" that go beyond the realm of actual or possible experience.

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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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Dan Robinson
Keywords
kant
philosophy
critique of pure reason
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 16/03/2011
Duration: 00:37:23

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