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Back to EpisodesLesson 2.5: The Thing-In-Itself
Season 2
Episode 13
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Description
What if morality itself is the best reason to believe that you are free?
Topics Discussed
- Kant and the Crisis of the Enlightenment
- Hume’s challenge to rationalism
- Transcendental idealism
- The noumenal and phenomenal realms
- How the mind structures experience
- Kant’s attempt to reconcile science and free will
- Analytic vs. synthetic judgments
- A priori vs. a posteriori knowledge
- Synthetic a priori judgments
- Deontology vs. consequentialism
- Freedom, reason, and moral personhood
- Hypothetical vs. categorical imperatives
- Duty and moral worth