Can't understand Kant?

It's actually just simple.

Immanuel Kant is one of the positivists (remember your Philosophy classes?). And who are the positivists? The positivists are philosophers or people who believe that what you see is what you get, and that only what science can find out is true. There is no such thing as a God. Pretty radical huh?

Anyway, if there was anything good that we can draw out from one of his crazy theories, it's his thesis <-> anti-thesis => synthesis. This formula is also know as dialectics. Marx later on applied this formula to his economic theory of communinsm. His thesis was the rich, his anti-thesis was the poor, and his synthesis is the new class. This is what he called Dialectical Materialism or commonly known as the class struggle theory. See how radical Kant's ideas are? What good can come out of this?! There is somewhat some good. A friend used it once to serve as an analogy for love, and I thought, "I think it's just simply perfect." True, our partner in life should complete us. To complete us means that they have something we don't. We are imperfect beings, right? Then there are things that you are lacking, but you can find in the other person. So in effect, if you combine - synthesize - all your good aspects, you become one perfect being. :-)

It's not unusual that a couple would seem to be like total opposites. I guess, according to Kant, it might work better that way.