Across
- 3. an action which is determined by some outside influence
- 5. a way of gaining knowledge by appealing to some particular experience(s). This method is used to establish empirical and hypothetical truths.
- 7. bonum Latin for highest good. This is the ultimate goal of the moral system involving the ideal distribution of happiness in exact proportion to each person’s virtue. In order to conceive of its possibility, we must postulate the existence of God and human immortality, thus giving these ideas practical reality.
- 9. one of Kant’s four main perspectives, aiming to establish a kind of knowledge which is both analytic and a posteriori
- 11. the tendency a person has at a given point in time to act in one way or another
- 12. one of Kant’s four main perspectives, aiming to establish a kind of knowledge which is both synthetic and a posteriori. Most of the knowledge we gain through ordinary experience, or through science, is empirical. ‘This table is brown’ is a typical empirical statement
- 15. one of Kant’s four main perspectives, aiming to establish a kind of knowledge which is both analytic and a priori.
Down
- 1. an action which is determined by the subject’s own free choice
- 2. a way of gaining knowledge without appealing to any particular experience(s). This method is used to establish transcendental and logical truths.
- 4. one of Kant’s three main standpoints, relating primarily to what we know as opposed to what we feel or desire to do. Theoretical reason is concerned with questions about our knowledge of the ordinary world.
- 6. the function of the faculty of imagination, through which concepts and intuitions are combined, or synthesized, according to a a schema. This is presented as one of the steps required in order to produce empirical knowledge.
- 8. the highest form of philosophy, which attempts to gain knowledge of the ideas
- 10. one of Kant’s four main perspectives, aiming to establish a kind of knowledge which is both synthetic and a priori. It is a special type of philosophical knowledge, concerned with the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience.
- 13. law the one ‘fact’ of practical reason, which is in every rational person, though some people are more aware of it than others. The moral law, in essence, is our knowledge of the difference between good and evil, and our inner conviction that we ought to do what is good
- 14. Kant’s lifelong approach to philosophy which distinguishes between different perspectives and then uses such distinctions to settle otherwise unresolvable disputes. Kant’s system of Critical philosophy emphasizes the importance of examining the structure and limitations of reason itself.