/lit/ - Literature

>>11815407

To understand Kant, you need to understand how he divides (and reunites) the mind by interdependent mental faculties. It's extremely complicated and entertaining to see how his system combines these mental powers different ways. Two of these faculties are:

Sensibility: Space and time provide pure domains for the subjective sensory qualities of beings to appear in your own mind.

Understanding: The categories provide pure thoughts for the objective reality of beings to be recognized by all minds like yours.

>>10918070

You are a human knower who perceives a world of orderly, predictable, general laws of nature (like causality of events, divisibility of space, mathematical formulas applying to all objects). Your mind has undeniable certainty of these laws of nature, and this is only possible if your mind is the author of these laws; the natural world is an appearance within your mind, and its orderliness, its form, is contributed by your mind - unconsciously, automatically. Your mind is a power of ordering, and it orders raw sensory input into colors and sounds and touchings and tastes and smells, yielding a universe of objects that look and sound and feel and taste and smell in distinct ways.

All objects behave according to general laws (they all act over time, they are all caused to exist by something else, they are all in turn causes of further effects, they all occupy space, they all have particular colors and textures and shapes and other sensory data that fill space and time).

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