“Not the stars in the heavens are the objects which [the transcendental] method teaches us to contemplate in order to know them; rather, it is the astronomical calculations, those facts of scientific reality which are the “actuality” that needs to be explained…. What is the foundation of the reality which is given in such facts? What are the conditions of that certainty from which visible actuality takes its reality? The laws are the facts, and [hence] the objects [of our investigation]; not the star-things.””
Quotes by Hermann Cohen
Hermann Cohen
Hermann Cohen was a prominent German philosopher and a key figure in the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. Born in 1842, he emerged as a significant intellectual force, often regarded as the most impo...