“The view that correspondence knowledge of independent reality requires passive cognition has been around for a long time. In De anima, Aristotle uses Plato’s image of the mind as a wax tablet to describe the passivity of sense perception, the… — 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
