Perspective

Kerby Beliles

Mrs. Wilhelmus

AP English Literature

05 August 2013

My Tint of Glasses

Kant didn’t favor the rationalists or the empiricists when it came to establishing where we obtain our knowledge from, or how we perceive the world. He believed it was a work of  using both our senses and reason for obtaining our knowledge and perceptions. Kant also said that there are ‘certain conditions governing the mind’s operation’ which influences the way we experience the world.

Alberto had Sophie wear a pair of red tinted glasses to understand better of Kant’s views. The glasses limited the way she perceived reality. “Everything you see is part of the world around you, but how you see it is determined by the glasses you are wearing” Alberto had told young Sophie. This proved that you cannot simply say that everything in world is red just because your senses perceive as so, or because you get that impression.

In the first prompt I described how my interests and life situations affects who I am. In that prompt I said that my parents were divorced. So the tint on my glasses would be: victim of split up parents. This tint causes a few issues. It causes me to be jealous of whole families, whose parents’ marriages last. It causes me to be weary of my parents dating. It causes me to be skeptical of a future marriage I could have. The tint of my glasses causes me to have a pity party in my school work. That’s how the perspective to that specific tint of glasses apply in my life.