The necessary revolution in man's thinking after Immanuel Kant

Kantian thinking sense data

o INTUITIVE g | ee 3. SYNTHESIS

intuition rae unity of objective Ce ego in itself consciousness experience or thing in itself unknowable T think’ phenomenon unknowable INTELLECTUAL SYNTHESIS empirical ego system of categories world of mature

(made up of past experiences)

(made up of past experiences)

Modern arithropological applications of it ee

basic personality structure ____ operation of recognition —_____» usual problems of life ¢— ______ pattern of culture

(made up of past experiences) (synthesis as a mechanical operation) in a human situation (nature and society) (made up of past experiences)

ego as an actual new operation of cognition y» new problems of life _______y new pattern of culture subject experiencing (synthesis as a creative operation) in a human situation