After reading Kant’s work a second time, I am still somewhat confused by what he said about noumena. As they are “things-in-themselves” and we cannot know them as they truly are, is it safe to assume they actually exist, independent of our senses? Or can we never know this? The latter is what I am assuming.
With that said, I am really confused by the concept of idealism - if things are made up of mental ideas and not physical things, how does that essentially work, especially in terms of me and another individual and what we see and how we interact with one another? We would have to have similar mental ideas to properly interact, wouldn’t we?
I’m sorry if I didn’t phrase my questions well, but Kant’s philosophy confuses me like no other. Forgive me if I got a lot of that wrong, also.