I can't help but think of Jungian archetypes when you mention innate capabilities, and synthetic a priori knowledge before experience. Thanks for posting these!
On your mention of babies experiences of environmental stimulus, Do you think the experience of birth and early years are so jarring and traumatic that we don't remember it for that reason? Or are we just too underdeveloped to have a formed memory? I think the latter... But perhaps for the better - if it wasn't the case, how would we operate having full memory of our birth?
Thank you for that great lecture! Would it be possile, to name the passages, at which Kant apparently said, that his complex language would be on purpose, in order to avoid misunderstandings, as paraphrased by you in 0:03:22? Thanks a lot and greetings from Kants home country!
Sure thing - check out the end of the introduction to the Prolegomena. Here: www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1783_1.pdf "But if you also find this too obscure-this plan that I offer as the Preliminaries to any future Metaphysic-bear in mind •that it’s not necessary for everyone to study metaphysics, •that many people have the aptitude to succeed very well in sciences (even deep ones) that are closer to sense-experience, yet can’t succeed in investigations dealing with highly abstract concepts, •that such people should employ their talents on other subjects; •that someone who undertakes to make judgments in metaphysics-let alone to construct a metaphysical system-must satisfy the demands I have made here, which he can’t do by rejecting them, so he must either adopt my solution or thoroughly refute it and put another in its place; and, finally, •that this notorious obscurity (·allegations of which are· often a cloak to cover the accuser’s laziness or stupidity) also has its uses ·as a defence against insolent intruders. There’s no shortage of them in metaphysics!· People who maintain a cautious silence in relation to other sciences approach metaphysics in a spirit of bold pronouncements and snap judgments, because in this area their ignorance is not contrasted with the knowledge of others."
Focus on the Logos, God given Reason, should have been treated here as a tool to understanding the world in relation to Metaphysics. Kant's recognition and governance of Reason is important.
On Good Will Hunting, as much as I love those philosophers, I’m still on Robin Williams side. A face to face conversation with a person is going to beat out the loneliness of reading Nietzsche in my bed room.
