Philosophy And Faith - Totus2us

Fr Francis on Immanuel Kant: "Thus Kant came to think that not all our ideas are derived from experience, as the Empiricists had held. Indeed, he thought that sensations and impressions do not by themselves constitute experience but require ideas in order to turn them into intelligible experience. As these ideas must precede experience they cannot be known from it a posteriori but be a priori. Thus Kant introduced a so-called revolution into the way we view the world. Just as Copernicus taught us not to think that the heavens revolve round the earth but, on the contrary, the earth goes round the sun, so Kant proposed that our ideas are not based on the structure of the world but the way we see the world is conditioned by ideas that come from our mind. These are Kant’s synthetic a priori ideas or categories of thought, which are the ways that we consider and talk about objects and include the ideas of quantity (one or many), quality, unity (when a thing is seen as a whole), substance (when considered as a subj