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Single Idea 9751

[from 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Immanuel Kant, in 16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self ]

Full Idea

To some extent we must view ourselves as noumena.

Clarification

'Noumena' are true realities, as opposed to 'phenomena'

Gist of Idea

To some extent we must view ourselves as noumena

Source

report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Christine M. Korsgaard - Intro to 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends' xi

Book Reference

Korsgaard,Christine M.: 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends' [CUP 1996], p.-8


A Reaction

An illuminating idea. We are inclined to thing of reality as 'out there', and hence potentially unreachable, but we actually experience 'being reality' directly in ourselves. Is this the germ of the whole of continental philosophy?