Revisit the "red-tinted glasses" extended metaphor in Chapter 25 ('Kant'). What's the meaning of it? 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.
In Chapter 25, Alberto Knox used the red tinted glasses as a metaphor to describe the way humans limit their perception to see the world. To me, red tinted glasses means that the only colour that could be seen is red. But we don't actually see everything as red, its just that we see things through a filter formed by everything we've experiences in our lives, the way we were brought up, religious beliefs and things that happen in our everyday lives.
Empiricists believed that you get your knowledge through your senses and rationalists believed that the knowledge comes from the mind, they believe in more scientific stuff. In the book, Kant thinks that both of these are important and they contribute to our perception of the world. I believe that no one is born with a pair of these tinted glasses and it is only those who choose to take them off that can understand how the world really is. We can choose whether to put on these pair of tinted glasses and we tend to be affected by things. But people may choose to put on one of these tinted glasses because they may not like what they see and wish to look at something at a different point of view. These people will have to learn to change their own pair of tinted glasses so that they can change their perspective.
To conclude, this metaphor lets me think about the problem more seriously and see things in a different perspective. We should all exchange our pair of glasses so we get to see what other people sees. Like this blog, this allows me to read what other people wrote and understand what they think about the question.
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It is generally agreed upon that gaining more perspective or to "exchange our pair of glasses" is important to reduce the bias in how we perceive the world.
However you say "no one is born with a pair of these tinted glasses". On the contrary, I think everyone do actually possess their own, unique vision. Incorporating the opinions of others widens our perspective.
Also, do we really "avoid the truth" by having perpsective? I do not think we are. We are interpreting things and GIVING MEANING to them. The truth itself is nothing but an object.
I strongly agree that perceprtion are formed through experiences from our lives, for example the way we are brought up, religious belief, culture etc; however, I disagree when you said "no one is born with a pair of tainted glasses" because I blieve that everyone have a different glasses of their own or not everyone would think, see and judge things in the same way.
I agree completely with what you said about people having to change their own pair of tinted glasses so that they can change their perspective. I think that in time, we will take out our tinted glasses and face the reality of the world. We will only however do this if and when we are ready to accept that the truth isn't always pleasant.
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