Essay - Kant and His Perception of Experience Kant Is Considered One...

Kant and His Perception of Experience

Kant is considered one of the great philosophers, particularly in regard to the concept of experience. H***** theories regarding human perception ***** experience were ground breaking, and as such he received many accolades and criticisms alike. One of the most famous Kant quotes is: "Though our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises out of experience." This quote is directed at perception, and through his discourses he sets his views apart from those of other ***** in three ways: (1) Kant had a very different ***** of *****, that ***** w***** not the result of things occurring around us, but the ***** of the fact that we are endowed with a mind which interprets *****se events. (2)Kant saw experience and possible experience as related ideas, ***** critically different in some respects. (3) His ***** of ***** were not truly of the Empirical school ***** thought. The latter is a ********** of much debate, but though an argument can be made to certain empirical elements of h***** theories on experience, as a whole they are *****, and he is not an empiric*****t.

1) ***** Conception of *****

The ***** original contribution Kant made to philosophy might be his "Copernican Revolution, the representation ***** makes ***** object possible rather than the object that makes the representation possible." This presented the ***** mind as that which actively originates experience, ra*****r than *****thing which is just a passive recipient of perception.

***** *****lieved ***** the ***** could be a blank piece of paper no more ***** a book filled with e***** word in existence could ***** a **********. He maintained that perception ***** the input of the senses must be processed, and recognized both as what we perceive it to inherently *****, and ***** memory recall tells us it is by relation. Without processing, the information would ***** be irrelevant no*****e -- "nothing to us," as Kant describes it.

***** saw experience as not relevant ***** perception of a thing, but as a manifestation of the human mind and ***** truly existent in itself. ***** was not some***** Kant truly believed in, as it implies th*****gs exist and we *****n view them. Kant argued that in fact we do not perceive th*****gs, but rather that ***** conceive them. The fact that they do or ***** exist is *****. Physical *****s enter our ***** ***** ***** senses, but ***** is in our thoughts that they ***** absolutely defined. If a person paints a w*****ll ***** what they believe to be blue paint, to them it is blue. If another ***** sees the same wall ***** ***** believes ***** to be red, it is then *****. What col***** the wall actually ***** actually pained is indeterminable. If one conceives that it is a blue wall, ***** is what it is. The wall ***** now not a perception, but ***** conception. In order ***** explore the ideas of conception, Kant ***** to determine ***** base measure of