James's working notes from Western Civ class

Table of Contents

Schopenhauer

Notes

  • all of rationality is desires
    • we are a slave of passions & desires
  • Buddhist influences
  • thought he was an heir of both Spinoza and KantKant
    Kant
    Wrote Kant, What is Enlightenment?
    Man's primary problem isn't sin; it's that he doesn't have the freedom to reason & be enlightened (??)

    Background

    came from Prussia, wrote under Frederick the Great
    Kant - a rationalist who wants to confine reason to the bounds of experience

    reason is bound by the condition of possible experience; cannot reason about unexperienced things
    so, we can't reason a/b God crating the world because we didn't experience it


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