3) We cannot know the noumena behind phenomena — Jonathan McCormack
How might one respond ? As a platonist, or theist ? — Jonathan McCormack
"THE world is my idea":— this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness. If he really does this, he has attained to philosophical wisdom. It then becomes clear and certain to him that what he knows is not a sun and an earth, but only an eye that sees a sun, a hand that feels an earth; that the world which surrounds him is there only as idea, i.e., only in relation to something else, the consciousness, which is himself. — Schopenhauer
What I take Schopenhauer's philosophy to mean (and also Kant's) is that there is an irreducibly subjective pole in every act of knowledge — Wayfarer
A devotee of Schopenhauer, I imagine, would make 3 points.
1) You cannot apply our notions of causality beyond physical reality.
2) We only know our experience inside time and space, so how could we know this “God” beyond everything we know ?
3) We cannot know the noumena behind phenomena. — Jonathan McCormack
it is a concept and provides great use in the physical world and serves as a talking point for much theological debate. — Richard B
Am I totally off here guys ? — Jonathan McCormack
Are those things outside?Don't people actually know things outside finite existence ?
Like the concept of infinity, infinite numbers that cannot be even or odd ? — Jonathan McCormack
What is transcendent about it?So couldn't the question of the correspondence between the perception and the perceived be answered by ascribing that correspondence to a supereminent unity in which the poles of experience, the phenomena and perception, participate in ?
The unity itself cannot be grasped according to the discrete properties of finite existence, and so is transcendent perception.... — Jonathan McCormack
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