Considering the origin of the universal,everything just exists on its own.There is no specific so-called rules or principles to affect itself to exist as what it truly should be like.The cognition is a complex.We could not never forget that the human beings should be the element to constitute and exist. The cognition from us is limitative and relative,facing up other objects. However,for survival and development,we explore the world,observe the objects to gain the knowledge,which is kind of existence to conform to our mind and in a sense of making our life easy.Kant claims that a priori and the acquired experience are the main factors to build up the knowledge.As a science research,we try to find the nature of objects with some rules of thumb.This kind of experience generally is from external changes.But it’s almost tricky to determine the conceptions. There is a Chinese philosophical term called “dao”,which can be seeming synthesis of all objects,and potential relations that should be exist. It argues that cognizing the world should be through improving the potential of organs,in another words called intrinsic raise.I think It might be similar with the apriori form which Kant suggested.
As a individual in the world,we are so tiny that we even can not see or hear the whole features of the world just “with” our eyes and ears.Like Socrates argues that “through” is in the degree of processing and interpretation.It will be generate some information of reflection through our organs.These organs should be run as an unit to complete the series of stimuli,Oppositely,everything comes to nothing if we let every organ work independently.It should be superficial conception to understand what we “use” to connect the external changes.Our body whole like a synthesis to perceive and react this kind of changes.Actually,the empiricism claims that the observation causes knowledge.People’s perceptions can uncover and reveal the truth. This kind of perceptions are caused by the elements outside which do exist.Socrates agrees that people should find the truth from the soul world.I think the nature of soul world is in degree of perceptions.From this view,I could say that the argument might be towards "empiricism". These two texts inspire me to think about the conception of objects and myself,such as,whether I’m in the “mirroring” of the world or “are the objects and I the mirrors of the world in deed ? ” Do I know the specific “mirror” --- myself ,if it is?
Dear Jun,
ReplyDeleteI agree on what you sad about Kant and the way he thinks we humans acquire knowledge. He thinks, as I see it, that we can't avoid our humanness and that is why he developed his categories and defined forms of intuition as space and time to define the limitations of our perception.