Immanuel Kant (Intro to Philosophy Coursera Week 1)
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. The last part of the commentary on Week 1 of the Introduction to Philosophy course from Coursera. There will be a time, which is soon, when I shall comment and attempt to comprehend the entirety of Kant’s works, which has an infamous reputation. However, this final part will address him in a very brief way as presented in the course module.
I can’t really comment
much because I myself do not possess sufficient intellect to comprehend Kant’s
thesis that the habits of our mind, or the rules of our thought has to be the
rules of our world as well. I might be able to discern something like that if I
make the effort. Yet this commentary is not supposed to be so deep. In any
case, Kant’s final conclusion is that there is a right way of thinking about
things and we can discover that through reason. I am certain that the details
of his conclusion is somewhat different from my understanding of the
theocentric way of thinking as the right way of thinking.
However, the module
did mention that we cannot imagine a world which does not work according to the
ways of thinking. For example we cannot imagine a world which does not operate
according to space and time, it is simply nonsensical. Yet there is something
which does not operate according to space and time, that thing is called God. Even
so, God is an exception from this world, He is in fact outside of this world. Even
then, we can still express God in terms of space and time, or the incomprehensible
lack thereof. Attributes such as eternity and omnipresence shows God’s
relationship to space and time.
It seems possible to
reason that the ways of our thought are necessary laws of the world, I just do
not know how precisely. A possible way I perceive is reasoning that all we have
is the perception of this world instead of the actual world itself, which is
possibly God alone. The world might be another way, but then our perceptions
would be entirely different. It is possible to be unbound by space and time,
but then we would be angelic beings or perhaps even God if we are omniscient. The
way we perceive the world reveals the world itself. It seems that is the thesis
Kant wishes to present. With this, the commentary is finished. Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.
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