(October 22, 2013 at 7:48 am)Esquilax Wrote: So Kant can't figure out how humans could do something, so he introduces magic in order to fix that gap in his understanding. Unfortunately, in the real world, one can't think so hard that their handwaving becomes literally true, and similarly, one isn't endowed with this right to know everything; his inability to figure it out doesn't therefore mean that what he feels is the best explanation available to him currently must be the right one.
On this score, Kant needed to just admit he didn't know, and leave it at that.
So are you saying that any assumption that humanity can or cannot achieve a level of the "highest good" is speculative reasoning? Could thinking that humanity cannot achieve this level be inductive reasoning instead based on the history of humanity?
