Kant Overall

            Reading the Transcendental Deduction (B) and the Phenomena and Noumena, I feel like I understand Kant’s thought a little bit better. It is still super strange and confusing, but at least with these two parts, I understand the basic points that he is trying to make.

            After these two sections specifically, I feel that Kant is just trying to categorize things and clarify the terms we use. I cannot recall a section where he was trying to prove, as he would call it, a phenomena or noumena; he just defines what things are and show us how to use them to categorize the thoughts and experiences that we encounter on a daily basis. Objects and thought were not things that had to be proven to exist like Descartes thought; they just needed to be used properly by know what they are. In that sense, Kant is a lot like Hobbes in the first half of Leviathan. He is just as tedious as clarifying every term that he uses to guarantee that we know what he means. His style helps the reader comprehend what he is saying, but at the same time, it is so deep that if you miss what he is saying, future parts of the book may seem confusing or vague.