Posts filed under 'Kant'

Draft to the President on the health mandate

Working up a letter to the President on how to get the backing of the conservatives with regard to the mandate to pre-paid health care, where you can take it or leave it, but where it pays healthwise to take it. The individual can be ok if he wants to, and the nation will be ok, or at least far better off.

Continue Reading Add comment April 4th, 2010

Kant and a duty to be healthy

Musing about the basis for mandating health insurance.

Continue Reading Add comment April 4th, 2010

A direction for the Christians

The goal of the Christian Church is a communism based on vows like those of the vows of a marriage, and where the only rule is the expedient expression of universal love, where no one can be left out. A muse.

Continue Reading Add comment March 29th, 2010

More on the appearance and the thing on its own

Trying to clairify the distinction and relationship between the apperances/specters of the brainarium and the thing-on-its-own, and how the latter is a production of human understanding for the sake of subjugating the specters to laws of nature. Unedited.

Continue Reading Add comment March 28th, 2010

Kant’s use of “Thing on its own” (das Ding as sich)

Lecture idea and trial of what needs to be understood of our knowledge and its limits before we take the first steps into a metaphysics. unedited.

Continue Reading Add comment March 27th, 2010

Lecture on the Aesthetic and the Analytic

Wordy sketch of a lecture on the differentiation of Kant’s three “things”: the appearance, the object of experience, and the thing on its own.

Continue Reading Add comment March 25th, 2010

Health care and national defense

An attempt to justify mandatory insurance as an obligation of the citizen. It’s part of the American “deal” in our common endeavor for liberty.

Continue Reading Add comment March 22nd, 2010

Draft of first part of Kant in a Nutshell

very brief look at Kant’s thinking in Pure Reason from space and time to the object of experience.

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Kant and the object.

Trying to encapsulate Kant’s thinking in his Critique of Pure Reason. Not complete yet, but I think I am on the way.

Continue Reading Add comment March 14th, 2010

Kant’s three objects

Another stab at clarifying the notion of Kant’s three objects: the specter/appearance of our lookings/Anschauungen, and the thing on its own as the foundation, but not limited by, experience and science.

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