Question
G. E. Schulze’s skepticism about the existence of this concept in his Aenesidemus (“eh-ness-ih-DEE-muss”) partly inspired Johann Fichte to abandon this concept in his Wissenschaftslehre (“VISS-in-shafts-LAY-ruh”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Give the English or German term for this concept that is often linked with the noumenon. The transcendental idealism presented in Critique of Pure Reason distinguishes this unknowable concept from its appearances.
ANSWER: thing-in-itself [or Ding an sich; or things-in-themselves; prompt on things]
[10e] This German philosopher expounded his view of the thing-in-itself in his Critique of Pure Reason.
ANSWER: Immanuel Kant
[10h] In her first book, Rae Langton referred to Kant’s view that we cannot know the thing-in-itself as a “Kantian” form of this trait. The “epistemic” form of this trait refers to the view that one’s knowledge is always incomplete.
ANSWER: humility [accept Kantian humility or epistemic humility]
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