The Confinements of Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our World...

Out of all of the philosophers we have studied so far this semester I find myself in agreement with Immanuel Kant the most. I agree with his stance on the fact that all knowlege is based on our senses. Kant states that "we impose a universal and necessary structure on experience by the way our minds organize the contents of experience. Therefore, the world which we live in and  the bodies and minds that we temporairly occupy of which we experience as reality cannot be experienced in any other way except as Kant says "within the rational structure of our minds." We organize our world with duality. Everything has a cause and an affect. Whether we discover that the thing that we tasted was sour and we labled it a lemon, or realize that the drops that fell from the sky made us wet, or even the logical and mathematical fact that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. All of this was experienced, and or was a universal law or truth that is true only with in the rational structure of our minds. They all contain duality. Can you name anything in life that does not contain this? We have light, dark, breathing in breathing out, life and death and on and on. This is our reality as understood by our human experience. Kant refers to this also as our "phenomena" which are the things as they appear to us that exist in the world of experience on page 123 of The Philosophical Journey. Kant's theory also believes that there is noumena which is the things in themselves that exist outside our experience which we can never know. This noumena is forever unavailable to us as long as we are in this world and consumed by our bodies and minds. I am comfortable with this belief as it leaves room for logical explanations and or for something greater to exist and or some explanation for no explanation to ever be able to exist within this realm.