Thread: Reality

How do you go about interpreting reality? For me, I think we have to settle for experience under the governance of reason. There just doesn't seem to be anything else. But I hear it all the time, one idealistic philosophy after another, that proclaims that our experience is flawed and truth can only be discovered, by, well, Kant's "pure reason".

Originally Posted by Burning Giraffe

How do you go about interpreting reality? For me, I think we have to settle for experience under the governance of reason. There just doesn't seem to be anything else. But I hear it all the time, one idealistic philosophy after another, that proclaims that our experience is flawed and truth can only be discovered, by, well, Kant's "pure reason".

Ayn Rand, that'll help. But I think reality is a combination of what you see happen with your own eyes, combined with the logic learned in a first year college logic course. All the rest is the polution that makes us selfish, emotional, and illogical.

One could assert that our limitness in existence (biological) may be hiding reality from showing itself? So it may just be bigger than what we know of it.