PHIL343 Study Guide - Intuition, Fundamental Interaction, Martin Heidegger
7 Mar 2014
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That is a model that kant rejects. but nonetheless, this model of a world of appearance and a world of truth in itself still haunts the philosophical project. Kant"s copernican hypothesis, though, transforms that model in a fundamental way. Kant asks not what things are truly in themselves, not what they are beyond the world of all human perspective, as if you could see them as god sees them. What he asks are what are the universal and necessary conditions of the possibility of anything being present to us in the rst place. He is asking about the structures of our cognition. Not in terms of making sure in every instance we get it right. Rather he is asking is how can anything be accessible at all, knowable at all. Metaphor of glasses: in order to see anything at all you must have these glasses. it is a limit that enables.
