Immanuel Kant -- wrong on everything

[didymus]

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7M-cmNdiFuI

 

[catholictiger]

I don’t like the Friedrich Nietzsche part at the end but he is spot on especially on his views of Metaphysics (being impossible)

But Kant disagrees with most Catholic Philosophical views. Especially on metaphysics. He wouldn’t believe in the existence of a soul, wouldn’t believe in existence at all. Along with other key metaphysical things.

 

[Iron_Donkey]

Put on by Nietzsche? But that guy’s just as bad or even worse. The only different choice is Ron Paul.

 

[Qoeleth]

I don’t like the Friedrich Nietzsche part at the end but he is spot on especially on his views of Metaphysics (being impossible)

But Kant disagrees with most Catholic Philosophical views. Especially on metaphysics. He wouldn’t believe in the existence of a soul, wouldn’t believe in existence at all. Along with other key metaphysical things.

What do you mean, Kant doesn’t believe in the existence of the soul? Kant says we are bound to believe in the immortality of the soul (without proving it, except insofar that it is a necessary belief). Therefore, he certainly would believe in the existence of the soul.

 

[catholictiger]

What do you mean, Kant doesn’t believe in the existence of the soul? Kant says we are bound to believe in the immortality of the soul (without proving it, except insofar that it is a necessary belief). Therefore, he certainly would believe in the existence of the soul.

maybe I’m wrong about Kant but I know that he basses most of his philosophy on what he can observe and things he can’t observe he finds very hard to believe.

he also believes that what we see are just mental categories and those things don’t really exist in the object. For example if you see a red rose it is just a a priori category of the mind and it really doesn’t exist. making metaphysics impossible. I guess I wrongly assumed that he would also not believe in the soul because it isn’t observable.

 

[Qoeleth]

maybe I’m wrong about Kant but I know that he basses most of his philosophy on what he can observe and things he can’t observe he finds very hard to believe.

he also believes that what we see are just mental categories and those things don’t really exist in the object. For example if you see a red rose it is just a a priori category of the mind and it really doesn’t exist. making metaphysics impossible. I guess I wrongly assumed that he would also not believe in the soul because it isn’t observable.

What Kant thought was the we need to believe in the immortality of the soul. It is what is called a ‘transcendental argument’- like saying, I need to believe in God, therefore I believe in God, therefore (as far as I am concerned) God exists.