Monday, May 19, 2008

Kant: On cause and effect

Kant agrees with Hume in regards to the fact that we can't discover the concept of cause and effect through experience or by means of reason. However, Kant does not agree with Hume regarding that cause and effect is a result of habit. Kant feels that causation is a priori understanding applied to appearances. We can know nothing about the thing in itself but only can know about how they appear to us. Causation is a form given to experience that makes it intelligible to us. I do feel that what we know about things are in fact just what we percieve or see them as. We will never know enough about something in itself since we will always only be offered a form that is seen.

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