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Contemporary man’s firm standing in his confrontation of reality is based on his confidence in himself. This confidence is his Kantian inheritance. Contemporary man is surrounded by seemingly simple things which are really complex because they hold within themselves the shine of subjectivity and the shine of Ding an sich (the phenomenal and noumenal worlds). Kant himself inherits this complexity from his predecessors — the rationalists and the empiricists.
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Martin Heidegger, Die Frage nach dem Ding (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1962), pp. 53–59
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© 1966 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Vycinas, V. (1966). Rene Descartes. In: Greatness and Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0661-8_10
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