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Kant's philosophy - What is science?
from Kant's Philosophy · host The Voice of Reason
Philosophy can be understood according to the school concept and according to the world concept, Kant says. According to the school concept philosophy is a science. Before its concept can be explained in the three upcoming lectures, it therefore is necessary to first become clear about what science is. For Kant it is essentially: systematic cognition. Quote: 0:08 The importance of the concept of phlosophy for understanding philosophy: 1:20 Kant has a twofold concept of philosophy: 3:46 Philosophy according to the school concept: 6:25 1. Preliminary note: How definition of concepts is done: 7:50 2. Preliminary note: Empirical and logical division: 11:09 Especially the big and important concepts are usually not clear: 19:48 Difference between science and art: 22:54 The tasks of science: 32:38 Difference between scientific and common cognition: 37:40 Difference between rational science and historical scholarship: 1:03:09 A priori and a posteriori: 1:24:12 Difference between pure and applied sicnence: 1:46:00 The bridge from pure to applied science: 2:05:31 Kant's concept of science is unconsciously already ours: 2:21:36 According to this strict concept, only very little is actual knowledge: 2:30:03 Advice for aufklärung: What one grasps systematically (scientifically), can be remembered more easily: 2:36:36 Thanks: 2:43:37 Overiew over science according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Science-according-to-Kant.jpg A complete overview of Kant's understanding of philosophy according to its school concept as well as its world concept can best be found in his lecture on philosophical encylopedia (Philosophische Enzyklopädie), which on top of that also outlines the basis of his critical philosophy and can be recommanded as a starting point, because it is both short and easy: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant/page/n9/mode/2up (I don't know of an English translation.) His understanding of science Kant explains in the preface to the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science: https://archive.org/details/kantsprolegomen00kantuoft/page/136/mode/2up The birdge from pure to applied science is the topic of the Opus Postumum: http://kant.korpora.org/Inhalt21.html / http://kant.korpora.org/Inhalt22.html (I don't know of an English translation.) I said that according to Kant cognition a posteriori can be generalised through induction and allegory - I should have said induction and ANALOGY however. I don't know why I kept using the wrong word when analogy is the same in German (Analogie), but I hereby want to point out this mistake. I also want to repeate a remark that my very observant listener and supporter Garnau Klaufen made under the German video: I say that according to Kant there are three types of connections: Of a thing with its own attributes, subordination and coordination. This means that the concept of connection is divided into three concepts by Kant. Since in the same lecture I say that according to Kant logical divisions are always divisions into two (dichotomy), one could come to the wrong conclusion that this is an emperical division, as these, as I explain, can divide a thing or concept into more than two parts (polytomy). However, as I mention in the lecture, the three types of connections Kant bases on his table of categories where there are three types of relations (substance, causality, community). And these three categories are actually a result of a transcendental division - the type of division I didn't get into in this lecture but which actually always results in three parts (trichotomy). I well get further into the transcendental divisions and the categories in a later lectures but wanted to clear up possible misunderstandings right away: These three types of connection aren't a willful empirical division Kant makes, but a necessary transcendental one, meaning there can't be more or less.
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