Kant
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (893 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609116860 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Swami Satyananda Giri is a sannyasin belonging to Sri Gnanananda Tapovanam, Tirukoilur, S.India. He has written extensively on Indian history and philosophy. His books include Naropa, Akbar, In the Twirling of a Lotus and Men of Straw.
Swami Satyananda Giri is a sannyasin belonging to Sri Gnanananda Tapovanam, Tirukoilur, S.India. He has written extensively on Indian history and philosophy. . His books include Naropa, Akbar, In the Twirling of a Lotus and Men of Straw
Kant asked these preliminary questions: What is it I know? How do I know it? How reliable is sensation or thought? What is the nature of the subject? Who am I? Is the mind a blank sheet in which experience writes whatever it wishes? Kant believed that sensation is possible only within two a priori forms of intuition: space and time. The new book Kant is a fascinating biography of this eighteenth-century German, whose beliefs were far ahead of his time. When Albert Einstein was fifteen, his father handed him a copy of Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason, and asked him to read it carefully. Satyananda Giri is a Hindu monk in Chennai, India. What we perceive are our own representations of re
Srikala said KANT-a book for a seeker. Space and Time are a priori intuitions of the mind. They are inbuilt into the nature of the mind. They are the framework within which we see the phenomenal universe. Without these primary a priori intuitions, even our perception of sensation would be impossible. What concepts underlie a priori judgments? The author goes o. physics student said seems rushed. Since I have nothing good to say about this book I will try to say as little as possible; after all, before reading this book I read "The Thirty Years" by Wedgewoood, which must be a landmark in historical writing. Contrary to Wedgewood's writing, in which every sentence is researched and carefully crafted, this book seem