Kant matters to the course because he shows that humans do not access objective reality directly; perception transforms the unknowable thing-in-itself into appearances structured for human processing.
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Epistemology
Kant matters to the course because he shows that humans do not access objective reality directly; perception transforms the unknowable thing-in-itself into appearances structured for human processing.
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Jiang defines epistemology as philosophy's attempt to answer the crisis of faith at the level of knowledge: how ideas come together and how we know what we know.
Jiang defines epistemology as philosophy's attempt to answer the crisis of faith by asking how knowledge and ideas come together.
Modern science changes the governing question from 'what is truth?' to 'how do we know truth?', making doubt rather than divine inspiration the central priority.
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"And he teaches us, he taught us how the world works. And this is what he told us. He told us that we can..."
"We perceive the world, we perceive the Nomana and turn it into the Phenomena for us to process in other words, and this is..."
"...another way to resolve the crisis in faith is through philosophy epistemology epistemology epistemology it really just means the theory of knowledge how do..."
"...another way to resolve the crisis in faith is through philosophy epistemology epistemology epistemology it really just means means the theory of knowledge. How..."
"It's basically a psychedelic, okay? Today, we don't rely on intuition and imagination. We think this is superstitious. We rely mainly on something called..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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