Rev Left Radio Crossing the Threshold: The Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead
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Apr 10, 2023 AI Snips
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Transcendental Idealism
- Kant's transcendental idealism posits that objects conform to the subject's pre-installed cognitive categories.
- This shapes how we understand the world, implying we can't know things in themselves, only our interpretations.
Kant's Idealism
- Kant argues that our minds possess inherent structures that shape our perception of reality.
- This transcendental idealism suggests we only know our interpretations of things, not things-in-themselves.
Schelling's Philosophy of Nature
- Schelling, an organic process philosopher, viewed nature as having a soul and being a dynamic evolutionary process.
- He believed our consciousness is a higher potency of the natural world, inverting Kant's subject-object relationship.