In class on Monday, we began by discussing Kant and the two main questions he proposed. The two questions were: “Is it possible to know what is ultimately real” and “Is metaphysics even possible.” We were talking about noumena vs. phenomena, which is the things we see vs. how it appears.
As class continued, we began discussing Kant’s analytic and synthetic theory of perception. Kant states that humans only experience the world through a particular group of categories. The categories consisted of time and space. The class was deliberating how time shapes all of our perceptions and none of us have ever had an experience that was not conditioned by time. For example, anything a person does in life is experienced through time and space. What Kant is trying to convey is our understanding of the external world and its foundations not merely in experience, but in both experience and a priori concept.
The last thing we were discussing in class was Kant’s Deontological Ethics. The first duty states that actions must be good in itself and good with qualification. The next duty states that the only thing that is good is a good will (regardless of consequences) as pleasure, intelligence, and various other goods are not always good. The third duty states that consequences do not matter for morally good behavior simply because a bad person can perform actions that seem good and a good person can perform actions that seem bad.
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