Immanuel Kant · Philosophy

The Copernican Revolution

Kant’s revolutionary insight that the mind does not passively receive reality but actively structures experience - so that we know the world only as it appears to us, shaped by the mind’s own forms.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Kant held the mind actively structures experience, so we know only appearances (phenomena), not things-in-themselves (noumena). Explain his Copernican Revolution in your own words.

Leads to Arthur Schopenhauer.

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