how and why Lonergan treats Kant, e. g. in Insight and MiT--hint from googling on one of today's basic dilemmas

[John Raymaker]

The problem of transcendence since Immanuel Kant centers on the epistemological-metaphysical barrier between human consciousness and the "thing-in-itself." Kant’s transcendental idealism restricts.knowledge to appearances

structured by the human mind, creating a fundamental problem of how, or if, we can transcend this subjective framework to know reality as it truly is.    (John)

[PIERRE WHALON]

Kind of like the (stupid) conviction that we are living in a simulation…

Pierre

Le 14 févr. 2026 à 07:25, 'John Raymaker' via Lonergan_L <loner...@googlegroups.com> a écrit :

The problem of transcendence since Immanuel Kant centers on the epistemological-metaphysical barrier between human consciousness and the "thing-in-itself." Kant’s transcendental idealism restricts.knowledge to appearances

structured by the human mind, creating a fundamental problem of how, or if, we can transcend this subjective framework to know reality as it truly is.    (John)

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