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| 5570 | Self-knowledge can only be inner sensation, and thus appearance [Kant] |
| Full Idea: We know even ourselves only through inner sense, thus as appearance. | |
| From: Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B334/A278) | |
| 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. |
| 5551 | I have no cognition of myself as I am, but only as I appear to myself [Kant] |
| Full Idea: I have no cognition of myself as I am, but only as I appear to myself. | |
| From: Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B158) | |
| A reaction: The key thought of the 'transcendental ego', showing a clear difference from Descartes, who thinks he directly knows himself (Idea 1401). He disagrees with Hume (Idea 1317) when he says there is an appearance. What could the true ego be like? |