what is the gist of Kant's theory of knowledge?

Answer 1

I gist Kant get into him. (I tried reading Critique of Pure Reason but it was pure bullsh*t)

Answer 2

Kants Theory Of Knowledge

Answer 3

Knowlege is more incomplete, intuitive and subjective than we acknowledge. We impose space, time and concrete reality on our mental experience.

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Like Socrates, Kant intends to define the limitations of human knowledge. Human knowledge is earthly knowledge; it is inseparable from experience.

In Kant's view, Descartes and other "rationalists" overestimated the power of reason. For Kant, human reason does not in fact see anything. It merely "thinks" or plays with ideas and then falsely concludes that these "speculations" must correspond to real things.

On the other hand, in Kant's view, empiricists, who believed the human mind to be a "blank tablet" (such as John Locke), underestimated the role of reason in the "building" of knowledge. According to Kant, the human mind is not passively formed by objects of perception; it actively "forms" the raw material of objects given in perception. It adds something of its own to knowledge.

Metaphysics is beyond the scope of human experience and is therefore beyond the bounds of knowledge. According to Kant, there are things that cannot be known. In fact all things, as they are in themselves and not as we reconstruct them in experience, are unknowable. We can only know things as they appear to us and are constituted in our consciousness.

According to Kant, there is a difference between the way things are in themselves (reality) and the way things appear to us. We cannot know things as they really are in themselves (noumena); we only know them as appearances (phenomena).

Knowledge is not the transparent viewing of "bare facts." The mind is not a window, through which objects pass unaltered. Rather, knowledge is the making of a product. The mind converts the raw material of beings as they are into the finished product of objects, or beings as they are for us in perception and knowledge.

Space and time are ways we experience reality; they are not reality itself. But Kant maintains that even though space and time are subjective (human) ways of ordering sensations, they are nevertheless "objectively subjective." Apart from accidental differences, all human perceivers intuit space and time in the same way. To perceive is to perceive spatially and temporally; that is simply the way humans are made.

Space is outer sense or the form of outer sensibility. It is the "outside," the "out-there" of things next to one another over against a "here" or the point of view of the one perceiving. The perceiver is here; the perceived is there. Whatever we experience is part of a "there." We cannot perceive what is not in space, because perception is the projection of space.

Time is inner sense. To perceive things in time is to put things in the perspective of before and after, to locate things within a succession of nows. The present "now" is the reference point for every then.