“The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy”…
— Bryan Magee
“Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer”…
― Heinz von Foerster
“The two most important works of moral philosophy of the modern age (are) Kant’s ‘Critique of Practical Reason’ and Rosmini’s ‘Principles of Ethics’ “ …
– Augusto del Noce
What was the Copernican Revolution in Philosophy that emerged from the ideas of 18th-19th Century German Philosopher, Immanuel Kant’s works such as The Critique of Pure Reason published in 1781 and The Critique of Practical Reason published in 1788?
Was it a recognition of the Primacy of Human Consciousness (e.g. Temples of Reason — Cult of Reason) and the Primacy of Man (e.g. Marxism) in constructing and shaping Reality?
Was it a deconstruction of the idealism and rationalism of Descartes?
Or was it an entirely different type of Copernican Revolution?
One that recognises the a-priori categories and mental structures of the human mind.
Its role in shaping the limits and boundary constraints of our knowledge including the importance of Negative Capability.
One that recognises the role of morals in guiding how we ought to act in the World. A higher-order practical form of reasoning grounded in Moral Law and a Categorical Imperative.
One that recognises the limits of pure reason (note: particularly important given the endemic embracement of semiotic sign machines (i.e. computers) and so-called Artificial General Intelligence in the early 21st Century).
Was Kant implicitly illuminating the Triadic Nature of Reason (Aristotle, Bacon, Peirce) based on different modes of Being (i.e. Peirce — Phenomenological Categories)?
Was Kant implicitly illuminating the Triadic Categories of Thought — Meaning, Being, and Knowing — that would become clearer by the 20th Century (Aristotle, Kant, Peirce)?
Was Kant implicitly illuminating the Triadic Nature of Being (Real Being, Ideal Being, Moral Being) that would subsequently be expressed by 19th Century Theologian & Philosopher Antonio Rosmini?
A new metaphysical architecture wherein Being, Knowing, Meaning and Acting are structurally entangled through the human condition and our embodied participation in Reality.
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