{"product_id":"9780199243174","title":"Kantian Humility","description":"Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of \"things in themselves\". Kant distinguishes \"things in themselves\" from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant says that phenomena - things as we know them - consist \"entirely of relations\", by which he means forces. His claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This humility has its roots in some plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the irreducibility of relational properties. Langton's interpretation vindicates Kant's scientific realism, and shows his primary\/secondary quality distinction to be superior even to modern-day competitors. And it answers the famous charge that Kant's tale of \"things in themselves\" is one that makes itself untellable.","brand":"Rae Langton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45744103031102,"sku":"9780199243174","price":2819.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780199243174_c71ec2dc-883c-41e4-b9ea-1b35023ce081.jpg?v=1707223650","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780199243174","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}