Sydney Smith 
Denysha Taylor “Kant’s life was a life of thought,” says Henley (p. 180). This is undoubtedly true as we see what major contributions to philosophy, psychology and religion he has given us. Kant goes against the ideas of Hume (that nothing is certain because everything we know comes from subjective experience) to create his own theology. He claims that humans think about things in certain ways because there was already something that existed before subjective experience to show how to think about them. He explains this in his categories of thought: “those innate attributes of the mind…that explain subjective experiences we have that cannot be explained in terms of sensory experiences alone…(p. 193).” Kant believes humans have knowledge to some extent about the workings of the world, before they ever experience it. This makes me put Kant’s ideas under the category of Creation. I think about how God created us. How we are able to be convicted, how we have an innate sense of what is right and wrong, how some things we just know. There are things in us humans that have not been taught. As C.S. Lewis argues in Mere Christianity, “a man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line…If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
Kant believes the human mind creates the universe. He looks at morality therefore as something each mind is aware of and has the choice to act upon. His categorical imperative is similar to the golden rule in that all humans should act upon the moral maxims they have set up to hold others accountable to. Kant’s ideas about humanity and how we are created have similarities with Christian theology but his view of God’s role in our lives and how we were created differs.
Rachel Easley
1:30 pm, 10.04.13
Caroline- I always enjoy your writing so much. You are such a beautiful person with beautiful thoughts and words. I also wrote about Kant and thought it was interesting that you said that Kant’s ideas have many parallels to Christian theology because I took the view from the opposite perspective. I agree fully though that his view of God’s role in our lives, and our perception of reality almost directly contradict with what Kant would say. The quote you started with was also very true and I certainly felt stretched to think after reading some of his ideas.
Jessica Weeden
11:03 am, 10.05.13
Caroline, I really enjoyed reading your perspective on Kant. The way you approached his thoughts and contributions allowed me to see how to classify him in the Creation category. The part where you said that there are things that we humans “just know” is a great example of the intricate makings of man. These innate understandings just are and are not result of a fall, or an attempt to make things right, but just are. The C.S. Lewis reference further brought the point home. I saw Kant as more of a Fall thinker but after reading your post I can see how he fits into Creation. Thanks for your thoughts! I always enjoy reading them!
Tyler McCuistion
3:37 pm, 10.07.13
I also agree about placing him with creation. The fact that he believes that the mind creates the universe around itself is proof enough to me that he informs on creation. The mind cannot create around it without a previous experience informing it how to, so the fact that he believes we learn from something higher supports his theory very well. Great job using references and quotes!