Lesson 2.5: The Thing-In-Itself

What if morality itself is the best reason to believe that you are free?

Topics Discussed

* Kant and the Crisis of the Enlightenment

* Hume's challenge to rationalism

* Transcendental idealism

* The noumenal and phenomenal realms

* How the mind structures experience

* Kant's attempt to reconcile science and free will

* Analytic vs. synthetic judgments

* A priori vs. a posteriori knowledge

* Synthetic a priori judgments

* Deontology vs. consequentialism