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I didn't read the article yet but I did make a valiant attempt through actual Kant on a trip through Uruguay and Argentina a few years ago... My understanding
by xyzelement 3y ago
I didn't read the article yet but I did make a valiant attempt through actual Kant on a trip through Uruguay and Argentina a few years ago...
My understanding is that Kant "simply" says that you cannot rely on yourself to know something objectively. That there's a limitation to perception and ... reason. Would you ask a cat what is right on the topics of vax, shape of earth, etc? No, because you know they are limited. Well, according to evolution we're just a bit more evolved but still have no claim to objectivity.
But that doesn't take away from morality. One way to look at religion is - it begins from the Kantian view that you can't just work out everything logically. That there's some great unknown and unknowable that is beyond you. And then enables you to engage with it in that world.
That's why religion anchors morality in "G-d said" because man certainly has no grounds to say "I've figured this out and it's right"