Revisit the "red-tinted glasses" extended metaphor in Chapter 25 ('Kant'). What's the meaning of it? (Hint: Consider what Sophie discovers about rationalists and empiricists along the way.) How do these questions of perspective apply to your own life? Use examples from the novel and your life to illustrate your understanding of the "red-tinted glasses" metaphor/experiment.
The meaning of th e"red-tinted glasses" is to prove to us that everything we perceive is how we humans think of it in our own perspective, although it is NOT what it is. For example, people used to think that the world is flat, simply because they see that the floor is flat. However that is not reality, since the world is flat in a scientific way, which is the what Kant have said of the reason, and which I personally think of being logic, instead of emotional, causing how we think of something in our own perpective.
There was once where I saw an optical illusion, what I can see is just random lines and what I think is that it is nothing at all to my point of view. But until someone told me that it is actually to me it is a image of a Dalmatian standing up looking backwards. By this, we can tell that our perpective are influenced by other people's own perpective.
However,in reality it is actually some ink printed on a piece of paper.
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I disagree with one of your statements. It is possible that what we perceive can be what it really is. What makes you so certain that what we see is wrong? Does that mean we're all seeing the world in the "wrong" way?
Well, in a way, everything is only something from the way we humans 'label' it.
The 'Dalmatian' your friend saw, maybe you're right, maybe it is suppose to be random lines. Who knows? There is not right or wrong, only the way we percieve it.
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