Kant

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Published 2012-09-08
Chapter Twenty from Book Three, Part Two of Bertrand Russell's "The History Of Western Philosophy" (1945).

All Comments (13)
  • @chandraraj9092
    I have sent a long time studying Kant but Russell's account is probably the best summary!
  • @ss9392
    Thank You for this upload!
  • My use of Rodin's Thinker as my icon is not to suggest I fancy myself as an intellectual, but rather a condemned man contemplating his fate at the gates of hell. As such I am in a quandary and looking for answers. I find the offerings of Will Durant far more helpful than anything from Bertrand Russel whom I feel wrote for other academics rather than the layman.
  • Has anyone extrapolated Kant's Space (Euclidean Space because it predated Lobachevsky, Bolyai, and Riemann) to non-Euclidean Geometry?
  • @tedgrant2
    The good Lord created the laws of logic, the laws of nature and miscellaneous laws of behaviour etc. He ensured that some laws are very difficult to break indeed and to break them requires a miracle. If you, for example, try to walk on water or fly by flapping your arms, you will very rarely succeed. He did, however, create a great many weak laws, which are easy to break and doing so is called sin. For example, eating meat on Friday is a piece of cake. This, I think, was his downfall. The only way to deal with sin is by introducing a system of rewards and punishments. This solution is overly complicated and I beg the creator to reconsider making all laws strong. This amendment to the design would be very simple and make everyone happy. To implement this amendment, requires a simple command, "Let sin be impossible". You would still have free will, to select from a huge range of good options. It would never occur to anyone to steal, murder or harm another human being in any way. Admittedly, this is utopian, which is exactly what we and the good Lord want. I know he can do it and it's not too late as Jesus suggested in Matthew 19:26