Sunday, May 18, 2008

Supreme Understanding & Will

"If I say that we are compelled to consider the world as if it were the work of a Supreme Understanding and Will, I really say nothing more than that a watch, a ship, a regiment bears the same relation to the watchmaker, the shipbuilder, the commanding officer as the world of sense (or whatever constitutes the substratum of this complex of appearances) does the unknown, which I do not hereby cognize as it is in itself but as it is for me, i.e., in relation to the world of which I am a part." Immanuel Kant pg 91

This to me says that people see the world the way that they want to see it. That is from their own point of view from whatever situation or part of life they are looking at it from.

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