Q&A: Are Antinomies Above Reason?
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Are Antinomies Above Reason?
Question
Hello Rabbi,
In one of the videos circulating online, I heard a quote that I had always agreed with, until I thought about Kant's antinomies, in which the Rabbi said: "There is no such thing as being above reason; that's nonsense people say when they don't know how to justify things."
So my question is: don't the antinomies point to precisely those things that we cannot, in principle, understand with our reason?
Answer
I didn't say that we can understand everything. But what we do not understand, we do not understand, and we have no tools other than reason to understand it.
I understand, thank you very much.