Evolution and Ethics – The Critique of Pure Reason



After deciding I wanted to look at the broader overall concept of what Evolution means in a wider sense, I decided to do some re-search in the philosophy section of the library. I read about Immanual Kant’s theory of Naturphilosophie and Transcental Morphology, and his work surrounding the Critique of Pure Reason, and how this linked to the term Evolution. Kant believed he had discovered another attribute of propositions that allowed him to frame the problem of a priori (knowledge independant to experience – key to the truth), and made distinctions between analytic and synthetic statements. A statement directly from Kant ”In all changes in the material world the quantity of matter remains unchanged” got me thinking not just about the critique of pure reason but about the evolution of knowledge and perception itself. I also became aware of Kant’s description of the ‘Noumenon’ and the ‘Phenomenon’ – essentially the Noumenon is the ‘thing itself’ as the Phenomenon is the thing that appears to the observer, the Noumenal holds the contents of the Intelligible world and Kant claimed that mans speculative of reason can only actually know the Phenomena and will never be able to evolve to perceive the noumenon.

 

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