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This 3 page paper considers Immanuel Kant's views on the issue of whether synthetic a prior judgements can exist. This paper outlines some of his basic arguements from the Critique of Pure Reason and the Groundworks of the Metaphysics of Morals. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of his arguments, it is necessary first to understand his view of a prior knowledge and the progression of his statements regarding synthetic suppositions.
In Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argued that the supreme moral principle, which he describes as his categorical imperative, is a "synthetic a priori practical
principle" that cannot be "justified empirically" (GMM 29). Kant presents his arguments for the analysis of knowledge and the concepts of duty, reason, and morality through the use of
what he terms the a priori categorical imperative. Kant suggests that the concepts of the mind become effective through the universality of scientific knowledge and through the premise of
guaranteed laws that do not limit knowledge to specific content (GMM 180-181). Kant struggled with his view of the way in which man understands the mind based on
what he considered to be two distinct areas: rationalism and empiricism. As a result, Kant believed it was necessary to understand the basis from which the two can
exist and operate in the same sphere relative to the views of a priori knowledge. For example, Kant recognized that empiricism is based on experiential elements, on the derivation
of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used this to suggest that synthetic or derived understanding
was experiential, and therefore a postiori, rather than synthetic and a priori. Kant sought a means of explaining the basis for the expression of rational judgments, which while being
synthetic, may in fact have an a priori component. Initially, then, Kant argued that a priori judgments that are the basis for mans synthetic knowledge are not plausible.
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