PHI 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Noumenon, Arthur Schopenhauer, Copernican Revolution

• School: St. John's University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1000C
• Professor: Robert Grimwade

Document Summary

Transcendental idealism - the epistemological theory of kant and schopenhauer which holds that space, time, and causality are a priori features of how we perceive and experience objects, no things in themselves independently of our experience of them. Rationalism - any philosophy which holds that reason rather than sense experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge. Phenomena - appearances (objects as they are experienced by us) Noumena - the thing-in-itself (what exists beyond the objects of 0our experience) We can only know appearances (phenomena) and never things in themselves (noumena). Necessary condition - a condition that must be present for an event to occur that allows and event or state of affairs to be possible. Kant"s copernican revolution limits knowledge to the objects of possible experience. We can only know appearances, not things in themselves. Knowledge is limited to the domain of possible experience.