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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.
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Kant
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jiang reads Kant as rejecting passive observation: humans are active participants who shape and form the reality before them.
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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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Time and space are internal filters for understanding reality rather than things that exist outside us.
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Jiang invokes a Kantian limit on ordinary perception: people see through time and space, while some important realities are felt rather than seen.
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"So why do we choose to surrender our freedom in order to join a community? And so his theory is that we join society..."
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"...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..."
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"...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..."
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"...All right? Okay. So, the model that we use is from Kant. And Kant says that rather being a passive observer of the world,..."
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"...is the general will okay all right so think of Immanuel Kant who was a German philosopher and he explained that the very basis..."
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"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..."
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"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..."
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"...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..."
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"...stand before it and we try to understand it. Okay? What Kant teaches us is that, no, we are, in fact, active participants in..."
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"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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"...exist as they are perceived, okay? So again, the idea of Kant, where we can only see things through time and space, okay? These..."
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"...So let's work through it slowly. Okay, so we have Immanuel Kant, and we'll read Immanuel Kant later on, okay? And he's trying to..."
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