| Kant also says that the categories can be applied to phenomena, but not to noumena. |
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| Thus he seems to have been more like a Kantian believer in unknowable noumena than like a Vienna Circle proponent of the view that talk of God is not even meaningful. |
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| Following this, Kant argued we were only capable of perceiving phenomenon, or appearances, while the noumena, or spiritual essence, lay eternally beyond our reach. |
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| In other words, it attempts to form a positive conception of noumena. |
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| For the skeptics, Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena was redolent of earlier metaphysics. |
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| Kant insisted that we can never know the noumena, for we can never get beyond phenomena. |
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| The noumena, the word of God, freedom and immortality, is apprehended through a person's capacity of acting as a religious human being in a special time and under specific circumstances. |
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| Schopenhauer's philosophy returned to the Kantian distinction between appearances and things-in-themselves, or between phenomena and noumena, in order to stress the limitations of reason. |
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| They want control over their own work, but they also, in the Platonic sense, want to move closer to the pure essence of art, the noumena, and escape its distorted outer trappings, or phenomena. |
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| The noumena are the external sources of experience that are not themselves knowable and can only be inferred from experience of specific moments, of deep spiritual phenomena. |
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