Editorial notes: In February 2013, Shai adds Evernote to his suite of repositories. This is an application designed specifically for note-taking, organising, task lists and archiving. This proves to be the ideal tool for him to better control his ever-growing research notes, stored primarily up to this point, in handwritten notebooks and documents stored in his Google drive. Between February 2013...
Some essential part of stories lies in their telling. Here is a story: Kant has the idea of the sublime, whereby the aesthetic is significantly determined by its ability to transcend (and hence terrify) our senses. For instance the magnitude of a mountain or a storm – both threaten our sense of self and perception by impressing upon us fact that there is always more, forcing us to teeter...
Editorial notes: Shai documents his interpretation of Locke’s Theory of Knowledge[I] which, he explains, “is famous for being based on the principle that the mind is a blank slate” and that the mind is “gaining everything it knows by experience”. The need to acquire experience in order to gain knowledge is a principle by which Shai chose to live his life. Knowing now that this was his guiding...
Editorial notes: Although Shai refers to Kant in earlier essays, this is the first where he is analysing Kant’s writing and philosophical approach by analysing his “Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science” (definitely a mouthful, thus often referred to as Kant’s Prolegomena). Altogether, 23 essays are related to Kant. I severely want to re-read this...
Yesterday’s incomplete sentence was the end-point for what-was. It read: “I can prove that” What? I’ll leave that as a prompt and introduction. A nebulous stepping-stone offering unknowns, and inconceivable benefits to what follows. Is this true? #This. I’ve turned to Kant, whose Prolegomena occupies my table and thoughts. It’s a work in process. Which is to...
Editorial notes: The sections “Learning to reading to learn” and “Misc comments on writing” are typical of Shai’s phenomenological journey and his reflection on his own intellectual endeavours and achievements. As explained at length in other places, Shai’s journey has two main components: the first being the domain of knowledge under investigation, be it Philosophy, Science etc; and the second...
I’m going to note my Kant reading, and utilize a variation of mind mapping (cf. Euclid). Philosophy has made no progress, I will. 1.1. His arrogance is his boldness which stems from his greatness. Imagine him. A towering intellect. 1.2 Begin from the definition of this science, this scope, this metaphysics. 1.2.1 Analyse, break down into analytic, synthetic and a priori, a posteriori. So...
Let me return to the last of yesterday‘s line’s, wherein I was translating Kant into a Euclidean format: (1.4) Introduces “Science of Nature” (1.4.1) “Nature is the existence of things, so far as it is determined according to universal laws.” (1.4.2) In S15 shows what this might look like. [Insightful – see highlights] (1.4.3) Another definition...
Content: Media review: Spartacus Continuing break-down of Kant-reading Media review: Spartacus Media I appreciate: Spartacus. Superficially this would seem the farthest of likelihood, yet whatever those base characters may be, they are redeemed by any number of virtues. It might be fairer to begin with the listing of the ostensible detriments. First and foremost, it appears as not much more than...
(1.7) There is a limit to knowledge in the noumenon, although there is a temptation that other philosophers have fallen into by transgressing that boundary. (This being the last thing I wrote yesterday). This idea is reaffirmed in the quote: “The possibility of experience, in general, is therefore at the same time the universal law of nature, and the principles of the experience are the...
