“Kant’s procedure shows very
clearly that it was he and not the twentieth-century phenomenologists who first
conceived the value-laden objects of cultural experience as epistemological
ultimates. It was he, not ourselves, who first discovered the irreducible
connection of ‘fact’ and ‘value’ in the Lebenswelt [world of lived
experience]. For Kant argues that the objects of cultural experience, no
less than those of primary sensation, are constituted by the mental
organization of the perceiver.” (p101)
Annotation:
It is not important here to enter an argument of who came up with what, but Kant’s argument that the objects of our socio-cultural experience, on which our interpretations are based, are attributed meaning by the perceiver. The objects in themselves do not hold meaning until they are perceived.
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