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Kant wrote that all our knowledge is relative to human perception and 'reasoning'. We 'see' reality as it appears to us through our senses (filters of perception) and 'thought' (fantasy made into logic like 'rationalism'). So far Kant is defending 'cultural relativism'. Both Giambattista Vico and Immanuel Kant see common sense as THE guideline for decisions. But Kant might have had 'moral' reasons to come to his tricky compromise: therefore the only 'truth' is our selfmade 'truth' (there is nothing higher than reason: 'rationalism'). Kant suggests that in the end only 1 selfmade 'truth' is behind 'human reality'. 'Kantian truth' ('rationalism'), fundamentally protestant..

Faith in 'rational' a priori is (inherently arrogant) called: 'understanding'

In his Kritik der reinen Vernunft Immanuel Kant intended to show that the pretensions of 'knowing reality' in general were groundless.

Critique/Kritik does not mean criticism, but 'analysis'. Kant is not attacking 'pure reason', but defending 'reason' against 'impure knowledge' supplied by senses. Kant's 'Critique' can be interpreted as trying as a compromise between 'mysticism'and common sense

In Kant's view 'pure reason' is similar to applying the 'meta-logic of nature by 'rational beings' and is independent of all sense experience (faith)

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