Kant's Transcendental Idealism

For Kant, we constitute our world through the ongoing synthesis of the categories of our mind with the sensations of experience. His argument is to determine the limits and scope of reason. Hence he inferred, that reason was altogether deluded with the reference to this concept, which she erroneously considered as one of her children, whereas in reality it was nothing but a bastard of imagination. Furthermore he concludes that in plain language, there cannot be any such thing as metaphysics. Not to mention that if we cannot rely on the power and authenticity of cause-and-effect principle, then scientific discovery and progress is an endeavor doomed to epistemological uncertainty. This drove Kant to transcendental idealism, it describes truths about the world that are both necessary and universal, and how the world of objects exists. …show more content…
if we assume that the objects must conform to our cognition.” He views the mind as an active agent in constructing the world and our knowledge about it. Kant believed that its an active process of our minds to select, organize, and interpret what is experienced by our senses. However empiricist had viewed the mind in a passive nature, a “blank slate” on which is recorded the sounds, images, and sensations of experience. This coincides with cognitive potentials in our genetic equipment and to reach their fully evoked state, they need ongoing simulation of our experience. However the knowledge we gain by analyzing the categories is synthetic a priori knowledge. Therefore Kant believed that people can’t establish the existence of universal moral laws by remaining with the phenomenal reality. It is necessary for people to use the power of pure reason to enter into the noumenal