I read the
texts belonging to theme 1, both texts were written a long time ago which made it a bit difficult to understand since
the style differ from present English, but also since I didn’t have any understanding
of many of the concepts and words presented in the text. Therefore I had to
take notes and make a lot of research just to understand since they weren't explained in the texts themselves.
With the
things I grasped from reading the texts I went to the lecture where a lot of
the things got explained. Johan Eriksson explained and talked about the view
where knowledge corresponds to the facts of reality, where people left the teleological
worldview for an objective mechanical worldview, where things such as force,
pressure evolved to explain nature without noise from human experiences. As a
second topic during the lecture Johan discussed how it’s possible to know
anything about the world without looking into it, or having synthetic knowledge
apriori? Kant’s answer to this question, Kant’s Copernican revolution, was also presented. Then
as a third topic he lectured about the critique of knowledge is perception in Plato’s
text and also how Plato anticipated Kant. During the lecture I took notes and
tried to add the different concepts that were presented together. During the
seminars first hour a lot of the time went to Johan explaining the concerned
topics, but also freely asked questions were noted and later on discussed
during the second hour.
I’ve learnt
about Kant’s new way of thinking, where an object conforms to our
faculty or 12 categories of understanding in time and space. Then that people structure
and organize information according to this and this then gives meaning to the
world that is structured, perception is blind without conception. I’ve learnt
about Plato’s work and how he anticipated Kant when he criticized “knowledge is
perception” by his making of Theory of forms/ideas, which possibly is the foundation
to the idealism. I’ve learnt a lot of new philosophical concepts/terms and I
also think it has been good to read a lot, especially in English.
I feel the same way as you about grasping the concepts but also the language, which differs a bit from modern English. Looking at this post and your first post, you seem to have learned a little from Kant which I personally think was hard to understand. He writes about things that doesn't come natural to a lot of people, especially not to those of us that are leaning towards the natural science side rather than the philosophical side of reasoning, and I think this was a good exercise for us engineer students!
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