What Atheists Kant Refute

[vwvortexer]

[W]hen Christopher Hitchens and other atheists routinely dismiss religious claims on the grounds that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence," they are making what philosophers like to call a category mistake. We learn from Kant that within the domain of experience, human reason is sovereign, but it is in no

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[jazzfanatic]

Atheists - heh. I can still make them scream, "OH MY GOD!!!..."

So then, what have you to say to Buddhists, who do not worship a deity but do believe in the afterlife of the soul?

[vwvortexer]

For Buddhists, Kant still applies. As stated in the article: Kant's argument is entirely secular: It does not employ any religious vocabulary, nor does it rely on any kind of faith. But in showing the limits of reason, Kant's philosophy "opens the door to faith," as the philosopher himself noted.

Basically, Kant said that just because we can't know for sure about the existence of things such as God, an afterlife or a soul doesn't mean they don't exist.