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Kantian Humility - Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Hardcover, 198th) Loot Price: R4,013
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Kantian Humility - Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Hardcover, 198th): Rae Langton

Kantian Humility - Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Hardcover, 198th)

Rae Langton

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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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Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 1998
First published: July 1998
Authors: Rae Langton (Professor of Moral Philosophy)
Dimensions: 243 x 162 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Edition: 198th
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823653-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-19-823653-0
Barcode: 9780198236535

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