[FRA:] Zizek & Koenigsberg on The Matrix, Human Batteries & the Symbolic Ord

[James Rovira]

If I recall, we do not certain knowledge of the "necessary components
of construction" -- what we have is knowledge of ourselves.  There's
no direct access to the object in Kant to my knowledge.  The point is
that the object isn't (according to Kant) arbitrarily constructed by
the mind -- the object is necessarily constructed in the way that it
is by the mind, so that there will be a uniformity in this
construction among all rational agents (space, time, cause/effect,
etc.).  This is a weak point in his philosophy that has been
capitalized upon, of course.

Jim R

On Jan 16, 2008 2:19 AM, matthew piscioneri <mpiscioneri at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Jim,
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> sorry but I am a bit rusty on my Kant:> In Kant, we can't "know" the object, but all rational agents> necessarily reconstruct the object in the same way -- which is,> effectively, knowledge of the object. It is -our- knowledge of the> object but not arbitrary knowledge of the object.
> how does Kant explain it is possible to have gathered "certain" knowledge of the necessary components of construction undertaken by the knowing subject?
>
> cheers,
>
> mattP
>