"In order to reach God, freedom, and immortality, speculative reason must use principles that in fact extend merely to objects of possible experience; and when these principles are nonetheless applied to something that cannot be an object of experience, they actually do always transform it into an appearance, and thus they declare all practical expansion of reason to be impossible. I therefore had to annul knowledge in order to make room for faith."
Dogmatism in metaphysics: "Encourages them (youth) quite early and strongly to reason with ease about things of which they understand nothing and into which, moreover, neither they nor anyone else in the world will ever have any insight"
2 comments:
I'm not sure I like the dichotomy or wedge Kant drives between "knowledge" and "faith" - wouldn't this lead to the "check your brains at the door" phenomenon? Rather, experience (through creation, for example) in tandem with faith can become a means of experiencing God and appreciating Him more - as when a beautiful sunset, starry night, or overwhelmingly powerful hurricane stops us in our tracks long enough to wonder at His awesomeness.
Keep those blogs coming!
there's a lot of people that don't like the wedge. most Christians certainly don't. the problem is that just not liking it won't change the fact that his theories are still, to my knowledge, undefeated. perhaps God allowed Kant's reflection for the purpose of driving us back from boasting in our knowledge rather than in Him. whether Kant was entirely correct is another issue. I think what he wrote had a lot of truth, but somehow we must move beyond that at the same time, perhaps knowing Christ in spirit allows us to trust that He did, in fact, pierce the knowledge/faith dichotomy through his man/God nature, allowing us to also move from faith to knowledge.
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