Jun. 10th, 2019

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Зачем нужен профессор, который учит философии Канта?

Анатолий Воробей недавно дал ссылку на эссе Роберта Грессиса, профессора философии из California State University, Northridge, Is Philosophy OK?

If you’re a professor at a state school like mine, how impressed are you by your non-majors’ (or for that matter, your majors’) understanding of the material you teach to them?


Я представил себе, какие могут быть студенты в районном университете в ЛА, и мне стало жаль этого профессора, потому что учить их европейской философии совершенно безнадежное занятие. Подумать только: тема его докторской диссертации была "Kant's Theory of Evil: An Interpretation and Defense." Уж лучше бы он был экзистенциалистом. Тогда бы воспринимал сложившуюся ситуацию, как вызов собственной человечности в кафкианских условиях современной системы обучения. А вот если бы он был аналитическим философом, то ушел бы в программисты, не задумываясь.

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I. Of Definitions. 

A definition is,
as the term itself
indicates,
the representation,
upon primary grounds,
of the complete
conception of a thing
within
its own limits. Accordingly, an empirical
conception
cannot be defined, it can only be explained.
For, as there are in
such a conception
only
a certain number
of marks or signs,
which denote
a certain class of
sensuous objects,
we can never be sure
that we do not cogitate
under the word
which indicates the same
object, at one time
a greater,
at another
a smaller number
of signs.
...
We employ
certain signs
only so long
as we require them
for the sake of
distinction;
new observations
abstract some and
add new ones,
so that an empirical
conception
never remains
within permanent
limits.
It is, in fact, useless
to define a conception of this kind.
If, for example,
we are speaking
of water and
its properties,
we do not stop at
what we actually think
by the word
water,
but proceed to observation
and
experiment;

and the word,
with the few signs
attached to it,
is more properly
a designation than
a conception
of the thing.

--- Immanuel Kant. The Critique of Pure Reason.”

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