Episode #063 ... Kant pt. 8 - Limits of Knowledge

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 July 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Kant’s views on the limits of human knowledge. First, we ask ourselves why we seek knowledge at all and whether there will ever be an endpoint to our search for it. Next, we discuss our human experience of the world in contrast to the world as it actually exists and what limits this imposes on our ability to know. Finally, we learn why Kant believed in god, human souls, and free will, and the important distinction he made between two types of faith-based thinking. All this and more on the latest episode of Philosophize This!

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0:38.7	So I want to start out the episode today by saying probably the most and least controversial
0:46.2	thing that I've ever said on the show before.
0:49.0	You, listener, you, you are not built to have total knowledge of everything that's around
0:56.4	you.
0:57.4	Look, I'm sorry.
0:59.3	I'm sorry, my friend, as a friend, I feel obligated to tell you no matter how painful or
1:04.7	un-painful this is for you to hear, you just were not designed to arrive at a full understanding
1:10.4	about everything that exists out there.
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1:13.1	You know, there's this weird tight rope that we walk as human beings sometimes, right?
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