Need help with a philosophy work

[Holmes]

Hi forumers, I´ll be bothering once again. Does anybody have any idea about Kant, Descartes or Piaget and their relation?
Thanks.

[mangaluva]

I could tell you volumes about Kant if I hadn't left all my Higher Psychology jotters at home. IIRC, he thought that both rational and empirical theory was doing it wrong, and were attempting to perceive the world backwards. Here's his page on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which I recall referring to extensively when writing essays about him.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/

Descartes, as I recall, was one of the first philosophical writers to separate God from philosophy. His work involved rejecting anything that could not be proven 100%, resulting in cogito ergo sum. His philosophy was mainly rationalist, I believe, emphasizing deduction over perception.

Never heard of Piaget, I'm afraid.

[bluekaitou1412]

I just finished Philo 1 and Psych 1 last sem and I gotta tell you, these bastards made my life difficult

Wait, are you talking about Jean Piaget? (Assuming you are)

Manga's right I think, and Jean Piaget was the one with the theory of cognitive development. Relationship between the three? Hmmm... well. They seemed to dwell on mind stuff (I mean, almost everyone, I know). I dunno. Iirc, Kant was going on about the importance of reason+experience, Descartes was on about rationalism and applying these math thingies on philosophy, and Piaget... well... he was a psychologist that dealt with on how human intelligence develops (with stages and all that-- we studied it together with the psychosocial theory of Erikson and the psychosexual theory of Freud and the moral development theory of Kohlberg.)

[Holmes]

Thanks both! *and yes, I was asking about Jean Piaget*

[Akonyl]

Descartes also talked a bit about mind-body dualism, and how they interacted through this one section of the brain and how even though animals had this section too, they had no mind.

Which of course means they can't feel pain and dissecting them alive was perfectly cool. :V