The Affinity and the Apperception
Most current exposition of the concepts of affinity and apperception. I think it is getting clearer, but am never sure.
Continue June 28, 2009
Archives – June, 2009
Draft Lecture on Kant’s Affinity of the Specters/Erscheinungen
Trying to fathom Kant’s Deduction of the Categories and especially the pre-judgment that all specters are of a single nature and then the only objects that could ever be recognized by us in these specters, namely that they conform of a law of a nature (which is the unity of the categories).
Continue June 21, 2009
Transcendental Object = Nature, and the Consciousness of Self
Concise consideration of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories with the three prong tie in of affinity of the specters/Erscheinungen/appearances and the provision of an object via the pure concepts of understanding and the unification of consciousness in an identical consciousness of self. not edited.
Continue June 20, 2009
From Anschauung to Affinity
Suggested approach to university students in considering Kant’s conception of human knowledge and especially the Anschauung and the Deduction and the Affinity of all the specters. I’ll edit it tomorrow. I think it is getting better.
Continue June 18, 2009
Transcendental Affinity of all the Specters/Erscheinungen
This is a first draft of an exposition of the A version of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories.
Continue June 17, 2009
Self, Manifold and the Affinity of the Specters/
Semi-focused thinking on the affinity of all specters and how this affinity can only be a manifold in our consciousness in a certain way, and so how the nature which all specters represent can be recognized empirically must accord with the unity of apperception.
Continue June 13, 2009
Case for a Christian church
same old message: the Christians could convert the world if they would convert themselves into free people who are able to act independently of scripture. Any passages in the NT contrary to love are errors to be ascribed to scribes.
Continue June 11, 2009
Affinity of the Specters/Erscheinungen and Identity of Self
ruminations on the affinity of the specter/appearance. Seeking a clearer expression of the transcendental object = X = nature = according to laws. I think I am making progress.
Continue June 11, 2009
Manifold and the Affinity of the Specters
Another stab at clarifying Kant’s “affinity of the specters” by means of understanding his “Manifold” or multiplicity.
Continue June 11, 2009
Atheism leading to Naziism
Musing about a natural linkage between atheism and Naziism.
Continue June 7, 2009