The theme for the first seminar was very interesting even though the texts, especially Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was very hard to read. I had no problem to get through Plato's text, and I actually read all of it without skipping any pages. But Kant's text was very hard to understand, I kept reading the same sentence over and over again. In the end I gave up and watched a couple of youtube-videos explaining his theories and after that I finally understood something.
Before the seminar I felt I had a pretty good understanding of the theories (very limited but still). I had prepared a couple of questions which got answered at the seminar and I tried to participate as much as I could. I think almost everyone at the seminar said at least one thing. The discussion got pretty interesting and we talked about a lot of other things not directly related to this weeks assignment, which I think was good. I know a lot of people think the theories are very hard to understand (I'm one of them), so I had to stay very focused and listen carefully to be able to follow the discussion.
Even though I knew the (very) basics of Kant's theories I gained some new insights at the seminar, for example, did Kant really say that we cannot know anything about the 'real' world? In my first blog post I thought the answer was 'yes', but it turned out the answer was more complicated than that. Since we know, if we believe Kant, that we structure our perceptions in the 12 categories, we actually know something about the real world. Basically.
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Kant's agnosticism can be simply interpreted as one sentence:
RaderaWe can only understanding the phenomenon,but can not understand the nature.
It is like, all our understanding of the world is according to our cognition. But we don't actually know the the world itself. I was confusing here, because if our cognition is the rule of understand the world, is that kind of contradiction here?
I also think its good that we talk about other things not only related to the assignments of the week. It takes the discussion further and makes us see things from new perspectives. I like that you changed your mind according to Kant’s thoughts about know anything about the real world. The hard thing for me though is to understand what he means with the real world?
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