Thursday, 11 March 2010

Kant

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is recognised as first major intelect figure. Kant discusses the idea of noumenal and phenomenal worlds: in his book 'Critique of pure reason' he addresses the problems of causalities in empiricism. The idea of noumenal and phenomenal worlds is the thought on weather objects exist when they are not looked at. Many empirist discussed this matter. Hume thought that there was no causality in nature and therefore things only happen in our minds. He also thought that objects flash in and out of reality depending on when we are looking at them or not. An example of this is that, if you have left one room to go into another, the room that you have left has completely disappeared. However you know that it is there, and will expect it to be there when you return. However Kant explained this by stating that objects exist in there own right and it does not matter if they are being looked at or not.

Found that spark notes is a usefuhttp://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/kant/themes.htmll website when trying to understand some of the terms stated by Kant and Hume.

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