How do Kant's two versions of reality address the question of what we can actually know?
How do we analyze this?
- Phenomenal reality: Kant's term for the world as we experience (constitute) it. Known through the senses.
- Noumenal reality: Kant's term for the world that exists beyond our perceptions, reality "in-itself." Known only through the application of "pure reason," which in addition to confirming the existence of "objective reality" also gives us knowledge of the possibility of genuine personal freedom and the existence of a universal moral law (the "categorical imperative").
- Kant identified three other transcendental ideas that we use to synthesize (or "bridge the gap") between the phenomenal and noumenal realities: self, cosmos, and God. These are universal a priori ideas that regulate and make possible the phenomenal world, but because they refer to possibilities that exist in the noumenal world they can never be empirically verified.
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