“Here is how A5 and A6 come together: A5 Active Knower states that consciousness contributes features of the mind to experience and A6 Plural Subject specifies that since it changes, the way it organizes experience must do so as well.… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Heidegger connects the linchpin of the Kantian Paradigm—A5 Active Knower, that is, the idea that the subject organizes experience—to what he considers to be… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“R5 Passive Knower: “If, whenever I have to make a judgement, I restrain my will so that it extends to what the intellect clearly… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“What is as a whole” loses R1 Independence to become A1 Dependent when man becomes A5 subject, that is, the one who determines reality.… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Organizing one’s system around the A5 Active Knower is an essential feature of the Kantian Paradigm: the examination of anything else, including history, must… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche attacks the myth of a “pure” objective knowledge that could hover over reality without being implicated in it, that could, without prejudice or… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“A5 Active Knower: “The order and regularity in the appearances, which we entitle nature, we ourselves introduce. We could never find them in appearances,… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“One of the ways that Heidegger radicalizes Kant is by showing the “subject” to be active in multiple ways rather than limiting it to… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“the seed for the reconciliation can be found in the very idea that forms the core of the Critique of Pure Reason and the… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche wants us to become aware of the fact that we are A5 Active Knowers, that we are always already organizing experience, so that… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Russell simply could not swallow the notion that the mind is not R5 Passive but affects what is known—the very centerpiece of Kant’s Copernican… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“If mathematical knowledge is to have legitimacy, the mind must passively discover it (R5) without affecting it in any way; “mere delusion” results from… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Patiently following after nature ultimately enables us, in Descartes’ words, to “make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature” (PWD 1:142–43).” — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“We saw in the preceding section how Heidegger identifies Plato’s transformation of A2 Un-concealment Truth into R2 Correspondence Truth with its concomitant R4 Bivalence… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“The overarching issue is the idea that “the mind is in some sense creative. . . . Some such theory is essential to every form of Kantianism.” — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
