Kant,Hegel, Idealisim

Where to start, this weeks lecture is a tough subject to get your head around, idealism and imperatives. I shall endeavour to explain.
Kant talks about noumenal and phenomenal worlds in ‘Critique of pure reason’. This is the idea that there is a world perceived in the noumenal realm, it is said that if the object is not being perceived and viewed then it does not in fact exist. In other words it means that what we are seeing does not in reality exist as an object but only something created in your mind. Kant says that intuition makes perception, meaning our brain creates the world around us. Berkley says that objects flash in and out of existence as when we are not looking at them and acknowledging them they simply do not exist.
The Mind shaping what we see can be described as ‘Idealism’ also known as ‘German Idealism’. Idealists argue that good can only come if it can be legislated as universal law. In other words it would be good to have all the money in the world, but then no one else would have any money; therefore it could not be good. Empiricists will argue that the world exists as it is regardless of human perception. Kant says that everyone is born with a ‘moral law within’, he says that everyone knows right from wrong sort of like a moral code. In other words people who do things against the law for example know from they moral law within they are wrong.
Hegel was a devout Christian who believed in negation; that life was in fact changing all the time and that nothing ever exists! This in my opinion is a rather bizarre concept, as if nothing exists how does anything get done? Hegel would answer that everything is just changing constantly to get closer to paradise (essentially the garden of Eden as, in his opinion, everything has gone down-hill since the whole eating the apple incident). Hegel believes that historical events over time such as the Prussians eliminating alot of europeans was done as part of Gods work. A rather radical idea, i’m sure dictators and physcopaths have used to justify multiple murders and genocide in the past.
That concludes my rather weak attempt at trying to explain idealism and Noumenal and Phenomanal worlds. I hope this has been of some help to all you people that care out there!!!