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?