Archives – April, 2009
Idea for a lecture on Kant’s meanings of specter (Erscheinung) and thing on its own (Ding an sich), and how Kant seeks to preserve a thing on its own for his practical purposes. Mainly a rehash in an effort toward concision and clarity.
Continue April 27, 2009
Rehash of Christian communism in search of a more concise expression.
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An extended fantasy of how Ted Haggard goes on in truth and comes to accept his sexuality as OK and at the same time sets the Christian church free from any law apart for Jesus’ Law of Love. And perhaps also give a real chance to communism. Not edited.
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A clear exposition of an emerging grasp of Kant’s Principles of Understand and especially the Analogies of Experience. See previous post for an exposition of the crainorama and the nature of the specters we must deal with.
Continue April 25, 2009
Lengthy reflection on Kant’s conception of the the object. Inspired by musing on the First Analogy and the Principles of Understanding. A possible refutation of some of Schopenhauer’s thinking. Not edited.
Continue April 24, 2009
Exposition of my current take on the Kant’s “Erscheinung”.
Continue April 20, 2009
The experience of overlooking something in a search and how Kant and Schopenhauer would explain this differently.
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toying with space in a way suggested by Kant, although I am not sure that my logic and conclusions are exactly his. Sort of a fun thinking.
Continue April 19, 2009
Seeking clarity in the use of Kant’s terms. Special emphasis on the subjective and the objective perception.
Continue April 15, 2009
Reflections on Kant’s exposition of terms in the 8th paragraph of the section of the Critique of Pure Reason entitled “The Ideas In General”, such as representation, perception, envisagement, concept, etc. And drawing on the thinking of the A version of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories.
Continue April 11, 2009