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> there is a sort of human perspective that shapes our understanding of reality and there is an underlying reality apart from that which we can never know. Thi
by DarkNova6 3y ago
> there is a sort of human perspective that shapes our understanding of reality and there is an underlying reality apart from that which we can never know.
This is quite the religious notion if you think about it.
- arrow7000 3y agoJust because religion also says something doesn't make it a religious notion
- ethanbond 3y agoI think they’re saying it’s religious in the sense that it’s definitionally unknowable. We know that everything we ever experience is something generated by our own brain (approximately). We assume that our brain is generating our experience based on some sort of external reality, but that thing we can only assume exists because we’ll never be able to step outside our brain to experience it.
- pvarangot 3y agoKant goes so extensively about this that it's not even funny to have to mention it on an HN thread. No the blogpost doesn't cover it in the same way it being like 3000% or more condensed than even a single one of his books and I don't think it's necessary considering metaphysics itself is "quite the religious notion". Yeah think about it
- lukeasrodgers 3y agoYes, Kant explicitly says "I found it necessary to limit knowledge in order to make room for faith." Maybe I'm mistaken here, or giving him too much credit, but I never quite took him at his literal word here, as if he were saying "I set out to defend faith and realized that to do so, I'd have to limit knowledge" -- rather I take the Critique of Pure Reason to be primarily a project of laying an epistemological groundwork for the kind of knowledge embodied in Newton's Principia (that and arguing with Hume).