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Phenomenology, including Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, ruled philosophy within the 20th century—and Edmund Husserl is generally idea to were the 1st to enhance the concept that. His perspectives prompted various very important later thinkers, comparable to Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, who ultimately grew to become phenomenology clear of questions of data. yet during this major new paintings, Tom Rockmore argues for a go back to phenomenology’s origins in epistemology and does so through finding its roots within the paintings of Immanuel Kant.
Kant and Phenomenology lines the formula of Kant’s phenomenological procedure again to the second one variation of Kant’s Critique of natural Reason. according to a number of criticisms of the 1st variation, Kant extra forcefully positioned forth a constructivist idea of data. This shift in Kant’s pondering challenged the representational method of epistemology, and it really is this flip, Rockmore contends, that makes Kant the 1st nice phenomenologist. He then follows this phenomenological line during the paintings of Kant’s idealist successors, Fichte and Hegel. Steeped within the resources and literature it examines, Kant and Phenomenology persuasively reshapes our belief of either one of its major subjects.
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There is probably no way acceptable to all observers to characterize rationalist, empiricist, and other approaches to knowledge. Any description one proposes can always be criticized in terms of another normative view. Broadly speaking, in following Descartes many rationalists lay claim to innate ideas. In speaking of innate ideas, the quarrel between rationalists and empiricists is sometimes stated in terms of the idea of God. But this is not true for Kant, who is in many ways close to rationalism, for instance, in denying that claims for knowledge, which must begin in experience, can be limited to experience.
61 The rationalist approach to knowledge through ideas in the mind exemplified by Descartes “officially” runs from ideas to things. We are meant to infer that ideas are effects caused by things, by the impact of the world on the mind, the world to which we return through an inference in part justified by the conviction that God would not deceive us. Reliance on God is intended to justify the anti-Platonic inference from effect to cause, or from ideas to the world. The difficulty lies in showing without invoking a deus ex machina that ideas in the mind match up with or otherwise correspond 36 / Chapter One to the way the world is.
Accordingly, this chapter also focuses on the further development and final breakdown of the old causal model of knowledge and the discovery of a new, postcausal model as well as the relation of both to Platonism. 2 His precise relation to Plato and Platonism remains unclarified. 4 Yet observers have never hesitated to discuss the relation of Kant and Plato. 7 I have been stressing the importance of the anti-Platonic reaction in the modern formulation of the problem of knowledge not, as Platonism suggests, through a direct grasp of reality, but by appropriating the Platonic model of the relation of ideas to things in the causal theory of perception.