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Intro to German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, & Hegel

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Kant's Copernican Revolution

For kant, this is analogous to what he's up to a because he's trying to raise to consciousness the activity of our own a mind, of our subjectivity. For copernicus, you know, this was a matter of a becoming aware of the motion of the observer as a factor in the equationstheo. And if we in copernicus view, throw ourselves into motion, throw the earth into motion, we can really simplify the geometry of the solar system rit the earth's in motion around the sun a rather than everything orbiting around the earth. So it's almost a ptolemaic counter revolution in the sense that now human subjectivity becomes the centre

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