Single Idea 5570

[catalogued under 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self]

Full Idea

We know even ourselves only through inner sense, thus as appearance.

Gist of Idea

Self-knowledge can only be inner sensation, and thus appearance

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B334/A278)

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.376


A Reaction

I'm not sure what it means to say that 'inner sense' is merely 'appearance'. Surely appearance is reality, within a mind? To want to see the real 'me' behind the world of inner appearances is a very odd kind of dream.