Day #21

Today’s favourite poses: Warrior I, II, III, Dancing Warrior

Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10

Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from Think by Simon Blackburn)


Kant thought that Locke's 'modern philosophy' had attempted what he called a 'transendental realism', which is untenable. 'Realism', because it insists on a real world of independent objects situated in space and time. 'Transcendental', because this world is outside our own experience, and only an object of inference. But Kant agrees with Berkley that the inference is too precarious.

'I am not, therefore, in a position to perceive external things, but can only infer their existence from my inner perception, taking the inner perception as the effect of which something external is the proximate cause. Now the inference from a given effect to determine a cause is always uncertain, since the effect may be due to more than one cause. Accordingly, as regards the relation of the perception to its cause, it always remains doubtful whether the cause be internal or external; whether, that is to say, all the so-called outer perceptions are not a mere play of our inner sense, or whether they stand in relation to actual external objects as their cause. At all events, the existence fo the latter is only inferred, and is open to all the dangers of inference, whereas the object of inner sense (I myself with all my representations) is immediately perceived, and its existence does not allow of being doubted.'



The question that comes to mind with this video is: "Who created the creator???"