Take home exam Philosophy. Two questions 350-550 words. Sources can only be the texts mentioned and lecture notes which I can provide. The questions are not that hard for someone who knows a lot about Kant and Hegel. Assignment: If you use my lectures to answer the questions, do not just repeat my exact words.
Try to find an independent way to express the relevant ideas (use the same “technical concepts” as in the lectures, but find your own way of explaining them). Good answers are clearly written, have an intelligible structure, define the concepts that are being introduced and contain all the information necessary for answering the question at hand, but no information that is not relevant to the question.
Questions: a) In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant famously writes that “thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.” Explain this quote, and what it implies for the limits of knowledge. b) “The effect can … be regarded as free in regard to its intelligible cause, and yet simultaneously, in regard to appearances, as their result according to the necessity of nature.” This quote from the Critique of Pure Reason contains the core thought of Kant’s intended solution to the problem of freedom in a deterministic world.
Explain this solution in some detail, and then outline what Hegel would deem problematic about this proposed solution.
