Assignment #2 "Red-tinted Glasses"

Assignment #2 “red-tinted glasses”

In chapter 25 “Kant”, the part where Sophie puts on a pair of red-tinted glasses, she then sees a whole lot of new things that she was not able to see before. To me, “red-tinted glasses” in a metaphor means you see the world a lot differently than you did before. It also means to me that sometimes we can the things using our very eyes, but probably because we have limited senses, we are not able to sense other things surrounding the object that you’re focusing on. To put it this way, if I see an apple is red, then would other living beings on this world also say that this apple is red? No, this is because our very eyes only see the apple is red through our eyes and our brain was taught that red is like an apple. Whereas if you ask a dog to see this apple, they would not say that its red and say its grey instead since their eyes can only see black an white. If our world was black and white, then the world to us will change dramatically.

Rationalism means that a person learns by reasoning, where as empiricism is saying the total opposite. It says that we can only believe in what we see. In my personal view, I think that rationalism is more convincing to me. This is because we see the object to believe that it is there, but in Sophie’s world, Knox gives Sophie a pair of “red-tinted glasses” so that she can see what things are there in front of Sophie’s eyes. But the problem is, you can’t touch the object, but you can only see the object. For this case, to me, I would be a rationalist. This is because even if we can see that the actual object is there, we cannot touch it or analysis that “yes it is there”
To put myself in an example, I would choose my glasses as an experiment. If I don’t have my glasses, I would definitely see the world very blurry with not enough detail for me to see the world properly. But to think deeply, if I don’t have my glasses, then I have another view of the world. I can see a whole lot of different things that other people are not able to see since my pair of eyes is different from theirs. If I put my glasses on, my world will become much more detailed and I can see properly. If I put the wrong pair of glasses on, I would then see other visions that I did not see before.