Jiang invokes Kant to distinguish noumena, the things in themselves, from phenomena, reality as filtered through time and space for us.
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Jiang, citing Kant, defines space as sensation made possible by the five senses, so distance is conceivable only for embodied beings.
Jiang distinguishes common will as what the people already are from general will as what the people could become if they acted by universal moral law.
Jiang presents Kant as saying humans are not passive absorbers of experience but active participants who create reality through the forms of space and time.
Jiang uses Kant's categorical imperative to give the general will an ethical basis: universality, free will, and treating human life as an end in itself.
Jiang presents Kant as primarily concerned with how humans understand reality, why they see what they see, and why they think the thoughts they have.
Jiang reads Kant as rejecting passive observation: humans are active participants who shape and form the reality before them.
Jiang divides reality into objective reality, the things in themselves or noumena, and phenomena, the things as they appear or are understood by us.
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"so let me explain some some con to you manual count okay and this is his understanding of how we perceive things so con..."
"...to understand time and space. Okay? And this is what Immanuel Kant tells us. What time and space is, is space is sensation. Sensation..."
"So why do we choose to surrender our freedom in order to join a community? And so his theory is that we join society..."
"...And the best way to understand the general will is through Kant's theory of the category. Kant's theory of the category is the category..."
"...not how we achieve the ideal state. We should think about Kant's categorical imperative. Now what happens is this. From the general will, this..."
"...All right? Okay. So, the model that we use is from Kant. And Kant says that rather being a passive observer of the world,..."
"...is the general will okay all right so think of Immanuel Kant who was a German philosopher and he explained that the very basis..."
"imagine that whatever you do will be replicated by everyone else immediately okay that's the idea of universality second is the idea of free..."
"my people but the other 50 percent would live will be happy they'll live in Paradise you can't do that okay because you cannot..."
"...how, in fact, Homer creates civilization. Okay? All right. So, Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. And he's primarily concerned with how..."
"...stand before it and we try to understand it. Okay? What Kant teaches us is that, no, we are, in fact, active participants in..."
"And we do so through a filter called time and space. So time and space do not exist outside of us. They exist inside..."
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