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Look at me!Loren Michael wrote:This may be the wrong place to ask, but what's the deal with the "my reality" threads that keep popping up?
Astreja wrote:I look at this sub-forum with great longing, wanting to participate but not really being all that conversant with the classics and some of the terminology.
Can you recommend any websites or smallish books that cover the basics of philosophical discourse without bogging down in minutiae?
Mick wrote:Copleston's series on the history of philosophy.
advaitya wrote:This probably isn't the right thread for this but I better ask it here than start a new thread.
I vaguely remember a quote attributed to Immanuel Kant so I'd be grateful if someone can tell me the exact quote. Also, if it's rightly attributed to Kant. The quote goes something like, "Man creates rules for/of the world and those rules in turn create the world he observes"
TIA!
advaitya wrote:Hi Walter. I am not sure of the exact wording of the phrase or mention of the word rule. Like you, I only faintly recall the general gist. Instead of "rules", it might have contained "man defines the laws of the universe.." but I cannot be sure.
Positron wrote:advaitya wrote:Hi Walter. I am not sure of the exact wording of the phrase or mention of the word rule. Like you, I only faintly recall the general gist. Instead of "rules", it might have contained "man defines the laws of the universe.." but I cannot be sure.
I am too busy to look it up now - but what you have in mind is in "Critique of Practical Reason" (towards the end as I recall). Kant is discussing the problem of free will in relation to necessity and chance.
As I recall he only offers it as a suggestion and says later that the theory would be difficult to justify and might raise more problems than it solves.
You can find the text on Gutenberg - you can probably find it by doing some skimming. If I have time later I can probably find the part.
Greatctulu wrote:All of Nietzsche's works, "The Critique of Pure Reason" by Kant, "L'Etre et le Neant (Being and Nothingness)" by Jean-Paul Sartre, "Godel, Escher, and Bach" is an interesting read by Douglas Hofstadter, though I'm not sure it counts as philosophy.
metacristi wrote:For those who do not have too much time at disposal I would recommend The British Empiricists (very expensive as I see, personally I borrowed it once - and copied it- from the local British Council Centre).
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