Tag: Critique of Pure Reason

  • Can we see essences? Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl

    Can we see essences? Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl

    My last post discussed Husserl’s understanding of essences and eidetic intuition. In this post, I am going to examine an important consequence of this. Specifically, Husserl’s view of eidetic intuition reveals a fundamental difference between Husserl and Immanuel Kant. Kant maintains that intuition is only and always either of sensible individuals or of the forms…