Mar 15, 2015 08:45 PM
"It has been more than 200 years since Kant developed his philosophy. The world has changed a lot. We have moved beyond the Newtonian view of the world. Einstein’s theories of relativity and quantum physics have changed our view of the world. It has been a long time since philosophers have dropped Kant’s notion of a noumenal world existing alongside the phenomenal world. Could it be true that Kant was right after all? That his philosophy is not only compatible with our contemporary view of the world, but that the noumenal realm that he postulated is nothing but the higher dimensional structure of our universe that have recently been taken seriously by theoretical scientists?
In this essay I proposed that this is indeed the case. After giving a broad overview of the Kantian view, I made some proposals how his philosophy could be adapted (one should rather say extended) to incorporate new developments in pschoanalysis as well as physics. The existence of the noumenal realm opens up the possibility that our knowledge could indeed to some extent be grounded in the human subject, not as standing apart from the world, but as being part of the world. His philosophy also, not only provides a unified perspective on our world that could incorporate disciplines as far apart as psychoanalysis and physics; it also enable us to reconcile the different interpretations of quantum physics.
If my proposals are accepted, the implications thereof are profound. It implies that philosophy has taken a wrong turn when it rejected the noumenal realm. Since this provides the natural ground for knowledge, at least some of what has been done since then leading to the skepticism of post-modernism should be reconsidered. The adapted Kantian perspective could provide a powerful framework within which the contemporary developments in physics could be interpreted. Lastly, the existence of such a realm reinforces the fact that our world consists of much more than the observable realm."=====http://wmcloud.blogspot.com/2011/07/kant...ed-in.html
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In this essay I proposed that this is indeed the case. After giving a broad overview of the Kantian view, I made some proposals how his philosophy could be adapted (one should rather say extended) to incorporate new developments in pschoanalysis as well as physics. The existence of the noumenal realm opens up the possibility that our knowledge could indeed to some extent be grounded in the human subject, not as standing apart from the world, but as being part of the world. His philosophy also, not only provides a unified perspective on our world that could incorporate disciplines as far apart as psychoanalysis and physics; it also enable us to reconcile the different interpretations of quantum physics.
If my proposals are accepted, the implications thereof are profound. It implies that philosophy has taken a wrong turn when it rejected the noumenal realm. Since this provides the natural ground for knowledge, at least some of what has been done since then leading to the skepticism of post-modernism should be reconsidered. The adapted Kantian perspective could provide a powerful framework within which the contemporary developments in physics could be interpreted. Lastly, the existence of such a realm reinforces the fact that our world consists of much more than the observable realm."=====http://wmcloud.blogspot.com/2011/07/kant...ed-in.html