It is the case that if Kant’s Prolegomena claims that we cannot know anything of God (or other supernatural things for that matter) through rational thought, then, if it is right we should not be doing any rational theology at all. — ClayG
This is because if we cannot know anything of theology through rational thinking alone then rational theology is not a study worth pursuing since there is nothing that can be known about it or come from it. — ClayG
However, this is not to say that we should not be employing experiential a posteriori) knowledge to give us clues to how God or other supernatural things function. — ClayG
It is the case that if Kant’s Prolegomena claims that we cannot know anything of God (or other supernatural things for that matter) through rational thought — ClayG
I believe this is a basic problem with Kant's metaphysics. We can see this with his phenomena/noumena distinction. It seems that we cannot have any real knowledge of the noumenal world because it appears to us only through the medium of the phenomena. — Metaphysician Undercover
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