Kant's Ambiguity

When asked if someone could possess reason, doubt, and faith [in one topic], all respondents answered yes but had fairly diverse answers as to why. Doubt was often coupled with reason as three of the respondents felt that the lack of details adding up (fault in reasoning) lead to an uncertainty in whether something was true. The fourth respondent felt that it was a linear pathway where reason was used when someone doubts a subject, and when all seems hopeless, the person sticks to faith to pull them through. Lastly, faith was seen as the starting pawn and when reason and guidance seem to fall through as someone doubts, you have to use that reason to justify doubt and therefore restore one’s faith. In summary, some answers coupled two without
Not being able to understand is only partially the reason why it is important to explore infinite reality. As expressed by Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, we should try to consider what life truly is and this thought-process is the ultimate pathway to enlightenment. According to Kant, a person is immature for not questioning anything existential, yet the lack of knowledge if of their own fault. He states, "this immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another" (Kant, 1). Fortunately, most of the respondents delve courageously in trying to define such complicated ideas and lack of understanding was the kicker. Most of the variations between their responses and the actual definitions were due to the lack of ever previously considering each question and also not having the proper words to represent what they truly meant. However, Kant explains that most of society does not react this way. For instance, one respondent did believe the task was far too tedious, time-wasting, and was frustrated by having to sit and think about something that seemed virtually impossible to define. Many fear the ambiguity of life’s unanswerable questions but that is why there is courage in order to accept it and move from the suffering portion of the depth as well as break back onto the surface with a new perspective. Without this, some may remain in the depth or may never even break the surface at all. Asking themselves where their true sense of joy stems from is an oddity. The immaturity Kant relates to is when someone is stuck only on the surface reality and never veers into anything