Immanuel Kant had some good ideas but as far as at least most of the group was concerned he may have stretched somethings a little to far. For a man who claimed that one could never truly have knowledge of what reality really was he sure did have a lot of absolute rules. For example, he believed that one should never lie, no matter the circumstance. This seems moral at first but how could lying to save a life be immoral? He claims that this is even an immoral act. I'm not sure many would share his absolute opinion about lying.
He also claimed that 7 + 5 = 12 was a priori knowledge. That it required no experience with the world to know this is true. This may seem to be true but was it always a priori knowledge? At some point in time did someone not have to gather experience from the world to know this was true?
I believe 7 + 5 = 12 even if there is no prior knowledge because even if the words seven and five were not developed it would still be true that if you added 5 sticks and 7 sticks it would still equal 12
ReplyDeleteunless i just dont understand priori knowledge, i dont think anything we know except natural instincts can be priori knowledge. no child comes out of the womb knowing that 7+5=12, they only know that if a parent/teacher/sibling...etc explained that when something is added the number increases, isnt that an experience? At some point in our worlds' history somebody figured out a numbering and counting system, they didnt "just know", isnt that related to a life experience? whether we need science to prove the validity of something or not everything we learn is from experiences, right?
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