ENGL 3045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dialectic, Noumenon, Deductive Reasoning
11 Apr 2016
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When you encounter something sublime, it is without bounds, without borders; and it truly knocks you off your horse. Still singular moment, singular you, singular moment of judgment. We can encompass it, we can observe it, yet we feel we are in the presence of the infinite. You can learn things from religion that are beyond the human experience. This is where we inherit that western divorce of reason from faith. Faith is not rational reason that you can know. Human experience is limited there is something beyond, but we cannot know that noumenal thing. When you have a sublime experience, you are speechless, language is not sufficient to capture what you are feeling. Kant"s method is to build philosophical system. In the analysis, you break down things and until you get the position you want (breaking down, slowly arrive at clear definition between opposites) What is the relationship between the subject (perceiver) and the object (what"s perceived)
