Final Question 15

From what I understood, Kant’s most significant contribution to philosophy was how he was able to defend philosophy against Hume’s attack on it. Hume had these two yes or no questions that he used to determine what actually existed or not. According to these two questions, God didn’t exist, self didn’t exist, etc. they all received “no”’s for their answers to the question and therefore couldn’t exist. These questions could also state that philosophy didn’t exist. This is where Kant comes in to save the day. Using logic and reasoning he was able to prove that God did in fact exist. Kant took Hume’s two questions and turned them around into a “synthetic a priori truth”, which was “a meaningful statement about reality whose truth is known independently of observation.” So you didn’t have to see God in order for his existence to be true.