Monday, October 9, 2017

Anthropomorphism, Mentomorphism, Manumorphism

Kant's Anthropomorphism is, more precisely, what can be called Mentomorphism, since it is to the Forms of the human Mind that it is adapted, i. e. Knowledge is his Anthropomorphization.  Now, an important element of his concept of Mind is what he sometimes calls the Transcendental Object, without which there can be no unified things in Empirical Knowledge, which is essentially perspectival and superficial.  However, he does not consider that an object can be wholly and immediately given in manually grasping it, an process that neither reduces to a mere manifold sense-data, nor requires the positing of a Transcendental Object as a substratum of such a manifold.  Instead, it can be classified as a Technical Object, since, as has been previously discussed, grasping an object is the beginning of knowing how to use it.  Hence, the Transcendental Object is abstracted from the Technical Object. Likewise, his Mentomorphism is, more fundamentally, what can be called Manumorphism, i. e. the most basic human shaping of the world is by the grasping hand, from which the Mental shaping of it, in Theoretical Knowledge, is derived.

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