Kant's Metaphysics Analysis
As we delve deeper into Kant’s Metaphysics we begin to get a comprehension of how Kant believes that knowledge of the world can be possible. In this essay, I hope to explain clearly the way Kant believes that to be able to understand the world, humans’ project certain rules and regulation that objects must conform to so that they can be understood. I also intend to explain that it is through these rules and regulations that we will see two forms of human understanding that will appear with three categories, and these will filter all our experiences so that we are able to understand them. Finally, we will continue to explore Kant’s argument against traditional metaphysics. At first, we will look at Kant’s Copernican revolution of the understanding.
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As for the pure forms of intuition, Kant says that this intuition is beyond mere concept, but something that is real and experienced. To intuit something is to see it and this seeing is the knowledge that relates the object to the mind. For example, how do we experience mathematics? Let’s take the concept 7+5=12, how can we experience this concept? The numbers 7, 5, and 12 cannot be experienced but the concept of addition tells us that the 7 and 5 need to be combined and the concept of equals tells us that 12 is the outcome of the combination. But the experience of this mathematical problem is our fingers, as we count from 7 up 5 and we end at 12 the concept of the problem is made real. The experience of mathematics is our counting and the objects we use to …show more content…
Understanding is a manifold that ties everything together in an orderly network. Both the intuition and understanding are stems that grow from the same root. This root could be considered the soul and from the soul, both stems grow, but the soul is buried deeply within us and only the divine intuition (God) is able to see it. If we view the world through our hardwired glasses of space and time, then we know that this knowledge of nature is a priori, it is guaranteed, but not nature itself, nature as experienced. This nature as experienced is the understanding that goes beyond the simple intuition of objects and brings the objects into human intelligibility. This intelligibility builds the knowledge into a systematized body that we can use for future
As for the pure forms of intuition, Kant says that this intuition is beyond mere concept, but something that is real and experienced. To intuit something is to see it and this seeing is the knowledge that relates the object to the mind. For example, how do we experience mathematics? Let’s take the concept 7+5=12, how can we experience this concept? The numbers 7, 5, and 12 cannot be experienced but the concept of addition tells us that the 7 and 5 need to be combined and the concept of equals tells us that 12 is the outcome of the combination. But the experience of this mathematical problem is our fingers, as we count from 7 up 5 and we end at 12 the concept of the problem is made real. The experience of mathematics is our counting and the objects we use to …show more content…
Understanding is a manifold that ties everything together in an orderly network. Both the intuition and understanding are stems that grow from the same root. This root could be considered the soul and from the soul, both stems grow, but the soul is buried deeply within us and only the divine intuition (God) is able to see it. If we view the world through our hardwired glasses of space and time, then we know that this knowledge of nature is a priori, it is guaranteed, but not nature itself, nature as experienced. This nature as experienced is the understanding that goes beyond the simple intuition of objects and brings the objects into human intelligibility. This intelligibility builds the knowledge into a systematized body that we can use for future