Basics of Catholic Fantasy or A Priori / Kant's sect "Critique of Pure Reason" is in daily life also called "Science"
Let's destroy the myth. The Critique of Pure Reason(the Bible of Western Enlightenment; cornerstone of 'Western World' ethics) is in fact
IDEAlism and defending 'reason' and rational logic.
Sometimes called: 'transcendental idealism'. Kant was the first 'psychologer'.No doubt technology and logic are very useful, but the so called 'social sciences' including 'economy' are sneaky instruments of 'rational power'. 'Economy' presents the 'rational' myth that 'inflation' is a natural property. No, inflation is megafraud (myth of infinite growth).
To 'know' is an IDEA, living = to sense. 'Causality' is a relation among 'rational hypotheses (ideas), not a function of common sense. 'Space', 'time' and 'causalities' are 'rational' IDEAS. Based on the clarifying assumption that ' pure concepts of understanding' (a priori or idea-worlds of difficult words) are above intuition (common sense). That finally resulted in things like freedom of speech. Or arrogantly ASSUMING that the 'human' is more than ape in fancy clothing, and does not need sense experience, and that using 'rational' logic means being god-like.
Ron Hubbard in the 20th century tried to repeat Kant's tric in his sect "Scientology".
| In his Kritik der reinen Vernunft Immanuel Kant intended to show that the pretensions
of 'knowing reality' in general were groundless. Critique/Kritik does not mean criticism, but 'analysis'. Kant is not attacking 'pure reason', but defending 'reason' against 'impure knowledge' supplied by senses (mind over body; denial of common sense making sense). For Immanuel Kant, truth is above common sense and accessible by 'minds' because truth is hidden in in 'rational categories'. Kant's 'Critique' can be interpreted as trying to make the 'mysticism' of 'pure reason' accepted as 'higher' than common sense. In Kant's view 'pure reason' is practiced by 'rational minds' and is independent of common sense (pure reason=faith) Kant wrote that all our knowledge is relative to human perception and 'reasoning'. We 'see' reality as it appears to us through our senses (filters of perception) and 'thought' (fantasy made into logic like 'rationalism'). So far Kant is defending 'cultural relativism'. Both Giambattista Vico and Immanuel Kant see common sense as THE guideline for decisions. But Kant might have had 'moral' reasons (his Critique is part of his Philosophy of Religion) to come to his tricky concluson: therefore the only 'truth' is our selfmade 'truth' (there is nothing higher than reason: 'rationalism'). Kant suggests that in the end only 1 selfmade 'truth' is behind 'human reality'. 'Kantian truth' ('rationalism'), fundamentally protestant.. The Critique of Pure Reason should be understood as quasi mathematical description of a world based on Roman Christian supremacy (a priori). An a priori judgment is purely personal truth made into faith. Faith in 'rational' a priori is (inherently arrogant) called: 'understanding' |
The Word Wizard Kant was seriously addicted to the 'rational myth consciousness, and claims that his own 'word' "synthesis" indicates THE fundamental activity of the 'mind' (inherently assuming a mind-body split). Kant posed that our fantasy (the structure of our ideas = 'mind') shapes our experience of objects ("phenomenal reality"), using unchangeable rules (a priori). Concepts like "God", "freedom", "immortality". In the end just complex determinism. 'Synthesis' is a 'Kantian word' pointing at a function that presumes independent 'mind' (fantasy function).
Intelligence is adequate BEHAVIOR. I'll demystify Kant's religious 'understanding' of 'words'. By substituting Kant's Enlightenment 'words' a priori and pure reason with the 21st century words IDEA, LOGIC and FAITH.
I. The distinction between IDEA and behavior.Kant poses: Behavior creates knowledge , but ....IDEAS (juggling with a priori knowledge = Pure Reason faith in Logic) are basis of behavior (Zarah II: See picture left)
II. Universal IDEAS fundate 'human understanding' (Zarah II: "The Kingdom of Heaven = Creationism = Fundamentalism = Absolutism"). Kant poses: Behavior is useful, but confusing (Zarah II: "Better read papers?")
III. Search for universal IDEAs is 'Science' (Zarah II: Searching for 'Heaven' = 'understanding' = Absolute Truth)·
Kant poses: Universal IDEAs (pure dreams = science) ground Basic Knowledge
IV. Analytic and synthetic Judgements
· Analytic Judgments: 'rational' juggling with ritual behavior (Zarah II: 'Rational' part of 'Cultural Truth')
· Synthetic Judgments: juggling with IDEA basics (a priori) (Zarah II: Virtual Truth)
V. Theoretical Science: IDEAS extracted from IDEAS.
· Mathematical judgments are IDEA. (Zarah II: Mathematical Truth)
· Natural science (physics) is IDEA made into rockhard rules. (Zarah II: 'Scientific Truth')
· Metaphysics = IDEA in pure shape (dream) (Zarah II: Hallucination)
VI. The problem of IDEAs
· What makes IDEAs possible? (dreaming) (Zarah II: The Art of Dreaming)
VII. "CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON" = SPECIAL SCIENCE given from God: fantasy based on fundamental fantasies
· Transcendental: IDEAs about IDEAs. (Zarah II: Stuff for Madhouses)
VERY interesting is that towards the end of Kant's critical period Kant 'awoke from his dogmatic slumber' and he began to question the a priori basis of metaphysics, and ended by losing all faith in the value of metaphysical reasoning.
Zarah II