Noumena

In looking over my notes, I was interested in the idea that the moral universe exists in the noumena--outside the realm of possible experience and those things that can be known empirically.  Within the boundaries of logical possibility and the noumena is reason.  It seems to me that at the intersection of the reason and our lived experience humans are able to synthesize our ideas and order them in line with a moral judgment, that is to say that while morality itself cannot be felt or truly experienced, one can orient herself towards this abstract concept in hopes that her phenomena reflect the noumena. While I'm not 100% sure I have all of the longitudes and latitudes of Kant's ideas in their appropriate places here (the illustration from Wednesday on the board was quite intricate) I feel as though there is something here onto which I can grasp. It is entirely possible that this construction of the moral is backwards, as Kant says at the onset of this chapter, "we desire to be told also what we want to know," even when there might be nothing to know at all (181).