Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thoughts on Kant
Kant whittled down truth to the question the existence of his own mind. His mind could not be doubted, he decided, because it was his very mind doing the doubting. I wonder what Kant would think of questioning the truth of one's own thoughts. Our emotions sometimes lie to us...We can make a huge deal out of something that is insignificant because we THINK it is. By and by we may find that it really isn't important. Therefore, our own thoughts and emotions have decieved us. If our own thoughts could be lies of perception, than what is the point of the existence of your mind? If the thoughts of your mind are not the truth, if we lose the ability to perceive what actually is, does it even matter that the mind exists? Isn't the purpose of the mind to KNOW the TRUTH?
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Is it important that something have a purpose in order to exist? And must it be such a singular and very weighty purpose? I'd bet most of the thoughts we have are far from the TRUTH, the few that stem from mis-perception(is that word? pretend it is) seem like a minority. That the mind has the ability to discern at all, the thinking not the thoughts, I think is why Kant couldn't doubt it.
ReplyDeleteSorry for coming out of the blue, I'm a friend of your cousin Kevin and followed a few interesting links.
Hey! Comments are most welcome! I would venture to say there aren't things that exist without some kind of purpose. I don't know what the purpose of a misconception is. Maybe it's purpose is meant to be be spoken and re-interpreted in another way in order to reach an actual conception.
ReplyDeleteI get that Kant couldn't conceive doubting the mind because of it's thinking ability. My question is not whether the mind exists. My question is why it exists.