[lit-ideas] Re: The Final Finger of Fate
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:04:50 +0200
On 16. Sep 2006, at 20:13, Peter D. Junger wrote:
"Andy Amago" writes:
The problem I have with this is that if something is determined, if
everything
is factored in at the beginning of time, then it's determined by
something
or someone. That *has* to be God.
Or time has to lack a beginning.
Again, discussion of issues covered in the antinomies of reason in
Kant's first critique - this time the first and fourth!
Friends, fellow lit-idealists, lend Kant your ears and do not idly spin
the wheels of the intellect in pressing for theoretical demonstration
in realms of speculative reason that call for completeness beyond the
space-time schemata (i.e., the phenomenal world). Such 'spinning of
the wheels of reason' poses questions which require us to reach into
places that exceed our grasp - i.e., beyond possible experience. The
corrective lies in regarding such ideas (as discussed in the four
antinomies, etc.) as regulative principles, and then carrying on with
discussion of such only where practically warranted (as outlined in the
*second* critique). Then, using our powers of judgement [Urteilskraft]
(yes, the *third* critique), let us combine our powers of
*understanding* [Verstand] - which gives us a legitimate conception of
*nature* (i.e., the objects of possible experience bound in a
deterministic world governed by the laws of physics) - and *reason*
[Vernunft] - which gives us our understanding of *ultimate ends* (i.e.,
allows us to determine a categorical imperative to govern the exercise
of our freedom).
And then let us go out into the world and do some *good* things ….
Chris Bruce,
in Kiel Germany
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