About us
- Welcome! Salt Lake Philosophy Club aims to spread the wonder & wisdom of philosophy to the whole SLC area by regular discussion of philosophical works and topics.
- Roughly every 3 weeks we will meet to freely discuss a philosophical (or philosophy-related) reading which will be chosen & posted beforehand.
- Although actually reading philosophy is a key goal here, we also have occasionally more open meetings for discussing a particular philosophical topic--even drawn from a hat!
- Overall our goal is to understand & appreciate the wonderful world of wild, conflicting thoughts that smart people across all times and places have come up with when facing the Big Questions. Questions like: Who are we? What is the good? What is truth? How ought we to live together? And why is meetup so expensive lately?
Upcoming events
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Kant's Prolegomena (2)
Barnes & Noble Booksellers Sugarhouse, 1104 East 2100 South, Salt Lake City, UT, USFrom the worldly despair of Marcuse we now turn to the transcendental dazzle of Immanuel Kant. Kant, probably the greatest of the German idealist philisophers, sought to tackle the skeptical challenge laid down by Hume and others and establish what sorts of things we could definitely know versus which were forever beyond us--i.e. transcendental. His work extends from metaphysics to science to ethics to aesthetics... and beyond.
Kant is surely most famous for his Critique of Pure Reason (aka his "first critique"; he wrote three); but since this Critique runs to about 700 notoriously dense pages, we instead will tackle the Prolegomena, a much shorter work which Kant penned as a sort of introduction and précis of his ideas in his masterpiece.
A PDF of the Prolegomena is available here. Try to use this version or keep it handy so we all have the same page numbers during discussion.
We'll next read the "notes" section of "The Main Transcendental Question [MTQ] First Part", and the whole of MTQ Second Part--that is pages 38-78 in the linked edition. Have fun!
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