[lit-ideas] Re: Die Grenzen der Sinnlichkeit
- From: karltrogge@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:11:05 +0200
On 13-Jul-09, at 3:43 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 7/12/2009 9:30:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
karltrogge@xxxxxxxx writes:
As a matter of fact, the quotation I gave from Stawson ---
---
where?
I seem to have missed that post, and it's not in the files. Can you
specify date and title? Thanks.
JLS
This seems the easiet way:
On 13-Jul-09, at 2:47 AM, chrisbruce@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 13-Jul-09, at 1:50 AM, Phil Enns wrote:
Jl wrote:
"God" for Kant, is not a sensous concept _within our bounds_, so,
he argues, he is meaningless. Strawson, Grice, and I, agree."
The concept of God plays a role in both the first and second
Critiques. For Kant, the concept of God is an idea of Reason for
the purpose of organizing and making sense of other concepts, and
therefore, certainly not meaningless.
Strawson is with Phil on this one, JL.
"[C]ertain ideas for which no empirical conditions of application
can be specified and which are therefore a source of illusion if
taken as relating to objects of possible knowledge may nevertheless
have a useful, and even a necessary, function in the extension of
empirical knowledge,when employed in a different way, which he
entitles "regulative"-Such ideas are those of God, and of the soul
conceived of as a simple immaterial substance. Though it would be
illusion to think we can have knowledge, or even form any definite
conception, of objects corresponding to either idea, yet advances in
psychology and in science in general, Kant holds, are assisted by,
even dependent on, tihnking of inner states as if they were states
of an immaterial substance and thinking of the natural world in
general as if it were the creation of a divine intelligence."
from BOUNDS OF SENSE, Peter Strawson (Routledge, 1975), p. 33
So just what is it that you and Grice are agreeing upon? A citation
would be helpful here.
Karl Trogge
Hamburg
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
