/lit/ - Literature

>>22374259

The answer is so simple. Here you go everyone:

>reality is unknowable because it is, for lack of a better term, God's imagination
>we are made in God's image, so we perceive reality as God intends us to
>we can never know actual reality (God) until death
>the physical world does not actually exist as something physical, but we perceive it as physical, so there is no real difference to us
>humans, having rational minds in the likeness of God, can "create" objects and ideas as well, through our rational mind

There, that's it. I can't believe Kant and Hegel and all the others struggled with this so heavily. The problem was they were trying to work backwards from perception to reality, which is impossible. You first need to have faith in God and then work downwards from reality to perception.

I mean, did these dudes even read Aquinas?