Epistemology, Descartes, Kant, and subjectivity (unedited)
As my last post explained, we all live life believing that some things are really true objectively and in order for us to be consistent with our actions, we have to assume that absolute truth does exist. But now we should revisit where the relativists are correct. Talking about Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant will help support one of the points the relativists make. The relativists are correct in saying that we cannot absolutely be sure that what we believe to be true is really true. Descartes aids along the argument by explaining that, if there was a evil demon god, then this god could make a cereal bowl seem like it was in front of us in a situation where a cereal bowl was actually not in front of us. Kant helps further make sense of this claim. Immanuel Kant's explanation of epistemology is explained by good old wikipedia as a Copernican Revolution in philosophy. The reason he seems to be on the "Mount Rushmore" of philosophers is that, he completely revolutionized h...