In his work, The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant distinguished between the noumenal world and the phenomenal world. He argued that the physical world is experienced through our senses and that our sensations give us knowledge of objects. However, he explained that the physical world is not the true world. Our perceptions are constrained by our sensory organs and our cognitive faculties. These give us knowledge of the physical world. Kant called this the phenomenal world. Yet, even though our experiences of the physical world are constrained by our senses and cognition, there is an objective noumenal world, which is independent of our perception and cognition. Kant called this the noumenal realm. While the phenomenal world is accessible to us through our senses and cognition, the noumenal realms exist independently of our experience and knowledge. We cannot directly access the noumena, so we must infer them through reason. Hence science only discovers the phenomenal world and the nature of reality beyond our experience is incomprehensible to us as humans.
Introduction
How do we really define Philosophy? The Greek word φιλοσοφία – Philosophia. Or as the term has been coined by modern Western language – Philosophy. The literal meaning of this word is relatively static. Derived from its Greek origin it comprises two separate words...
