To prepare
for the first seminar I red two text; the preface to the second edition of Critique of pure reason by Kant and Theaetetus by Plato and thought about
the questions addressed to the seminar. What I first realized that these text
was very philosophic and I discussed the texts with a friend who has studied
idea history. Then on the seminar we first started to rehearse the texts and
discussed the meaning. I am going to write about the main question we
discussed.
- How can we understand the world if can’t experience the real world, just the world we perceive?
We discussed
that everyone creating an experience of the world in our mind. But how can we
know this is true? The world as we know it meet certain criteria as time, space
etc. The things we can perceive. But if there is more? What is the relation to
colors for blind people? This is an interesting question, because for people
who never has experienced colors can’t imagine them. There might be more things
that we can’t experience. We also discussed how infants experiences the world?
We said that things has a specific meaning. That’s why we experience them. And
time and memory is important to perceive the meaning. And the knowledge you get
from just agreeing. Metaphysics and critics are discuss what’s are truth about
the world. But only to discuss you have to do certain agreements. No matter if
your pro or against, if you’re going to discuss if a bock is blue or black, you
first need to agree that there is a book and that it can have certain colors. This relates to a prior and also where empiricism enters the discussion. As I feel that is more clear to me what
both Kant and Plato meant after this seminar. But it also made me confused in from a bigger point of view.
The discussion about colors was very intriguing to me! I often ponder about how people perceive colors, if they see them the same way I do, or if they are inverted or have some other color perception. We have the same definition on what green is, for example, because green is what we call the color of grass. But maybe someone see grass as the color pink without knowing it, because the only comparison they have is the grass (and other green things)?
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