Kant- Cause & eFfEct is COOLLLL

“..But this determination of the cause to causal action must likewise be something that took place or happens; the cause must have begun to act, otherwise no succession between it and the effect could be thought. Otherwise the effect, as well as the causality of the cause, would have always existed…(pg.78).” This is a good thought. I have never looked at the whole cause and effect thing this way, but it makes a lot of sense. It never occurred to me that in order for something to be caused there had to be an even that caused it, and in order for an effect there had to be the event that caused the caused and then due to that event the effect then takes place according to which ever universal law of nature it follows. But here there is just so much that takes place before the actual whole things happens, it’s crazy. And if the event never occurred to make the cause take place then the effect would have never happened, which means then this whole particular process would have always existed, because then there would have been no thing, or cause, that had to start and stop at a certain point in order to begin the whole cause and effect reaction, it would just naturally take place. Wow…interesting..