The mind-independent world as it is in itself, which for Kant really exists but which we can never directly access.
Called "one of those German phrases you should learn and use to impress people at cocktail parties."
The image Shore uses for it, in our paraphrase.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
The Copernican turn in Kant's epistemology reverses the direction of fit: not the mind conforming to things as they are, but knowable things conforming to the mind's capacities.
Put simply Kant's "Copernican turn": it was assumed that the mind must fit itself to things as they are. Kant reverses this: what we can know of things has to fit what the mind is able to take in.
Kant's willingness to set aside the thing-in-itself as unreachable amounts to fatalism, a kind of surrender; the real thing can be reached, with absolute truth and full clarity.
Put simply Husserl: Kant set aside things as they really are, apart from our minds, as out of reach. That is fatalism, a kind of surrender. The real thing can be reached, with absolute truth and full clarity.
Where Kant left the thing-in-itself beyond reach, Husserl substitutes "the things themselves": the real things are simply objects as they show up to us, given in experience.
Put simply Kant said we can never reach things as they are in themselves. Husserl replies with "the things themselves": the real things just are objects as they show up in our experience.
In her postwar lecture on existential philosophy, Arendt blames Kant: by severing being from thought and putting the thing-in-itself beyond reach, he opened the subject-world gap that alienates us.
Put simply Arendt blames Kant for our alienation. He split thinking from being and said we can never reach things as they really are, which opened a gap between us and the world.
3 links between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
KantThe Copernican turn in Kant's epistemology reverses the direction of fit: not the mind conforming to things as they are, but knowable things conforming to the mind's capacities. L2 · 38:03
HusserlKant's willingness to set aside the thing-in-itself as unreachable amounts to fatalism, a kind of surrender; the real thing can be reached, with absolute truth and full clarity. L11 · 28:39
Brands Kant's decision to set the thing-in-itself aside as fatalism and giving up.
KantThe Copernican turn in Kant's epistemology reverses the direction of fit: not the mind conforming to things as they are, but knowable things conforming to the mind's capacities. L2 · 38:03
HusserlWhere Kant left the thing-in-itself beyond reach, Husserl substitutes "the things themselves": the real things are simply objects as they show up to us, given in experience. L11 · 41:58
Recasts the thing-in-itself as the thing as given in experience; Shore says the result is a hair's breadth from Kant.
KantThe Copernican turn in Kant's epistemology reverses the direction of fit: not the mind conforming to things as they are, but knowable things conforming to the mind's capacities. L2 · 38:03
ArendtIn her postwar lecture on existential philosophy, Arendt blames Kant: by severing being from thought and putting the thing-in-itself beyond reach, he opened the subject-world gap that alienates us. L19 · 7:57
Declaring the thing-in-itself unreachable cut thought off from being and alienated us from the world
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.