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March 29, 2012
Kant Can't
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 29, 2012 6:08 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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the gravity of the issue being so vast such that it is best described as being the opposite of defying gravity
Posted by: notquiteunBuckley at March 29, 2012 8:09 PM
Thanks. Having struggled with philosophy and continuing to do battle with it, I appreciated this
video.
Posted by: Grace at March 29, 2012 9:48 PM
Paging Mr. Van, white courtesy telephone please.
Posted by: John Lien at March 29, 2012 11:08 PM
The reality based community has no idea that its intellectual lineage can be traced to this notion that reality isn't knowable.
Posted by: Gagdad Bob at March 30, 2012 6:27 AM
The way I understand this is that God and his attributes, e.g., Truth, Beauty, Love..., can't be owned and that the way to them involves suspension of reason. That was Kant's idea. Faith, intuition, begin where reason leaves off. The bottom line is that you can't Know/own absolute Truth, but you can live it; one can search endlessly for beauty, for God, but his secrets are his alone and we merely participate in them as a way of, by grace, enriching our lives. Nietzsche thought if you stare at the void long enough it begins to stare back. Did he ever realize he was staring in the "mirror"? His narcissism was tailor made for today's culture.
Posted by: John Hinds at March 30, 2012 6:58 AM
That sounds right, John.
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
From such crooked wood as man is made of, nothing entirely straight can be fashioned.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
The possession of power spoils the use of reason."
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2012 10:08 AM