Prompt #4: It Kant Be True

Molly Brothers

Mrs. Wilhelmus

English 11AP

10 August 2013

                                                                   It Kant Be True

      Kant introduces the idea that sense and reason are the way to get to the truth. Sense

alone will not get you to it nor reason alone.

     In the Kant chapter, Alberto Knox told Sophie to put on a pair of red glasses. The

red glasses made everything around her red even though she knew that everything around

her was not red. The red glasses symbolized the limit of human perception. Kant believed in both

sensing and reason. He believed that we are limited in what we can see but our reason tells us

that there are things that we can not see like canned air. You can see the can and feel the air but

reason tells us that there is a propellant pushing the air out.

     I believe like Kant that you have to use experience and reason to find the truth. For

example, my perspective on texting and driving is that you should not do it, but other people think

that it is okay. Other people's experience has taught them that they have never gotten hurt or

killed by texting and driving, so therefore it is okay. That is their tinted glasses, limited perception. I

have seen pictures of people who have gotten hurt or even died by texting and driving and I use

my reason to decide that the truth is that I should not text and drive. Kant's point was that you can

only get to the truth through experience AND reason.