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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Kant's Idea of the Numinon and the Phenomenon

Kant said that we are not merely the knowing subject but that we ourselves are also among those realities or entities which we require to know. To try to know it objectively is to desire something contradictory everything objective is representation consequently appearance in fact mere phenomenon of the brain okay so what? It's a matter of like being with bear appearances in the buddha sense that's really interestingOkay i'm gonna read you this passage from uh world as well in representation volume two um and he's talking about Kant and the sort of Kantian idea of the numinon and the phenomenon  the numinon being the thing that we have no access to the phenomenon being the thing we do et c

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