PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Immanuel Kant, Noumenon
10 Sep 2016
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me . Immanuel kant worked toward the end of the enlightenment. 1: to bring every branch of human knowledge (including theology) to the train bench of reason. To reconcile theology and science (which has significantly advanced), and. Disappointment with the enlightenment => counter-enlightenment (hume) Skepticism, or doubt in the strength of reason (remember hume"s skepticism regarding knowledge, especially rational knowledge) At the same time, strong intellectual currents tugging in opposite direction, either toward science and against religion or toward religion and against science. So, when kant comes on the intellectual stage, there is already a tendency to doubt, or question what the whole point of the enlightenment is, or what the whole point of knowledge is. Kant sees the task of his philosophy, as one of reconciling.
