What's So Great About Kant?

According to Kant, we do not perceive reality as it is. If a professional baseball player saw "things in a limited and distorted way," that is, if his perception of the movement and location of a baseball was something other than what it actually is, then he would not be able to consistent...

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Published inSkeptic (Altadena, Calif.) Vol. 16; no. 4; p. 42
Main Author Dahlen, Michael
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Altadena Millennium Press, Inc 01.07.2011
Subjects
Christianity
Philosophers
Realism
Religion
Science
Scientific Concepts
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Summary:According to Kant, we do not perceive reality as it is. If a professional baseball player saw "things in a limited and distorted way," that is, if his perception of the movement and location of a baseball was something other than what it actually is, then he would not be able to consistently hit ninetyfive mile per hour fastballs. (By this he means religious ideas such as the immortality of the soul or the afterlife.) So on the one hand, D'Souza regards the acceptance of a self-evident fact as an unjustified leap of faith.
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ISSN:1063-9330
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