Gregory pence, in Philosophical Dictionary of Common Terms defines causation “as one of the main philosophical problems explained in the area of metaphysics, it is the relationship between two events where, when one occurs’ the other always follows and where the first makes the latter occur (9). Causation happens to be one of the wonders in the universe. Idang shares in this line of thought, in his work “Philosophy An Outline For Beginners”, he defines philosophy as that which “begins with wonder about the world, about man and his origin, about the society and in fact about everything” (2). The understanding of an occurring event leading to another event, or that of an occurring event generating as a result of an already existing or occurring event, makes the beginning of the thoughts of causation in the universe. The structural setting of the cosmos is one of the most perplexing phenomena that create thought on the human mind. The work concludes on the note that Noumenal Causality is a line of reasoning that views human action in the phenomenal world as determined by laws of nature and also at the same time as noumenal beings whose actions are freely willed by them as noumenal agents. It identifies the distinctions between Noumena and Phenomena. It further shows true relationship between the allegory of the cave and Kant’s Noumenal Causality. This research seeks to capture the meaningfulness of Kant’s Noumenal Causality and its significance as well as it’s interpretations so as to determine whether it is self-contradictory or not In order to achieve this objective, the work briefly share the biography of Kant, discusses Kant’s metaphysics and it presents a conceptual clarification of Noumena and Causality, Freedom and Determinism. It is observed in the work that Kant argues that the whole concept of causality is directly dependant of the conditions of time, which makes “Noumenal Causality “appear as being self contradictory. Noumena on the other hand are described as thing-in-itself (Ding an Sich) wholly outside the conditions of time and wholly outside any series of experiences. Patronising the philosophical tools of analysis, hermeneutics and criticisms, the work observed that “causation” by definition refers to the situation in which something, x, follows upon something Y in accordance with a rule. That is to say, whether one can talk about a noumenal cause without contradiction. The necessity of this work manifest as to tackle the problem of the “causational reality” and on the basis of Kant’s discussion of the nature of Noumenal Causality, determine whether in some sense there can be a noumenal causality. This research is a critical examination of Kant’s Noumenal Causality.
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