Kant in 90 minutes is a book by Paul Strathern. In this book, Strathern argues that Kant was a philosopher of historical materialism. He believes that history is the product of the human mind and that the only way to understand history is through the human experience. He also believes that philosophy is the only way to understand the mind.
The book is divided into two parts. The first part is an exposition of Kant’s philosophy. The second part is a criticism of it. In the first part, Strathern explains Kant’s main ideas. In the second part, he criticizes them.
Let’s begin with the first part. The first chapter, ‘Kant in 90 minutes’, begins with a quote from the Critique of Pure Reason: ‘The pure concepts of mathematics are by no means mere logic or pure understanding. They presuppose the existence of things. The objects of the understanding, on the other hand, presuppose the existence of a mind. That the mind is the product of experience is self-evident, and it is the task of philosophy to explain the way in which the understanding is guided by experience, and in what sense it can be said to be a product of the understanding. It is the task of philosophy to explain how the mind comes to possess this knowledge of objects. Kant himself attempts to do this in the Critique of Pure Reason. He does so by introducing three basic categories of understanding: pure understanding, pure reason, and the synthetic a priori knowledge. Pure understanding is the understanding that is based on the senses, pure reason is the understanding that is bg that is based on knowledge that is necessary and necessary consequences of reason.
The understanding, when it is not guided by experience, is said to be a product of the understanding. This is what Kant means by the ‘product of the understanding’. Kant believed that understanding is a necessary condition of human nature. This is why understanding is the foundation of all knowledge. Without understanding, there would be no knowledge of anything.
Let’s give an example of each. An example of pure understanding is the understanding of the physical world. The physical world is the world of the senses. Another example is the understanding of the nature of a triangle. A triangle is a three-sided figure. It has three angles, and three sides. The sides are equal, and the angles are equal.
An example of pure reason is the understanding of the laws of physics, such as the laws of motion. And an example of synthetic a priori knowledge is the understanding of the necessary and necessary consequences of the laws of physics.
The main thing to remember about Kant’s ideas is that he argued for a certain way of thinking about the world. This way of thinking is called the ‘transcendental’ method. The transcendental method is a way of thinking about the world that is not based on the senses. It is a way of thinking that is based on reason alone. Prior to Kant, the common way of thinking was the ’empirical’ method. The empirical method is a way of thinking that is based on the senses. Kant believed that the empirical method was not adequate for knowledge of the world. He believed that the empirical method could only give us knowledge of the appearance of things, and not of the things themselves.
In the second part of the book, we are given a criticism of Kant’s ideas. This criticism is called the ‘theoretical’ criticism of Kant’s ideas. The ‘theoretical’ criticism is the criticism of the ideas themselves. The ‘practical’ criticism is the criticism of the way in which Kant applied his ideas. In the ‘theoretical’ criticism, we are given a criticism of the three main categories of understanding that Kant introduced. In the ‘practical’ criticism, we are given a criticism of the way in which Kant applied his ideas to the world.
The problem with the way Kant applied his ideas is that he is not consistent with the way he applies them. He sometimes uses the empirical method, and sometimes he uses the transcendental method. This inconsistency is called the ‘antinomy of pure reason’. The ‘antinomy of pure reason’ is the inconsistency between the two methods of thinking. The inconsistency is the problem. The ‘theoretical’ criticism of Kant’s ideas also deals with the way in which Kant’s ideas are not consistent with each other. For example, Kant’s idea of the ‘synthetic a priori knowledge’ is not consistent with his idea of the ‘pure understanding’.
The ‘synthetic a priori knowledge’ is the understanding that is based on knowledge that is necessary and necessary consequences of reason. The ‘pure understanding’ is the understanding that is based on the senses. Kant’s idea of the ‘synthetic a priori knowledge’ is not consistent with his idea of the ‘pure understanding’ because the ‘synthetic a priori knowledge’ is based on reason, and the ‘pure understanding’ is based on the senses.