Kantian Humility

Kantian Humility
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Publisher : Clarendon Press
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9780191519093
ISBN-13 : 019151909X
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Download or read book Kantian Humility written by Rae Langton and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-07-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant says that phenomena—things as we know them—consist 'entirely of relations', by which he means forces. His claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This humility has its roots in some plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the irreducibility of relational properties. Langton's interpretation vindicates Kant's scientific realism, and shows his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior even to modern-day competitors. And it answers the famous charge that Kant's tale of things in themselves is one that makes itself untellable.


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