Like Copernicus removing the earth from the center of creation, Kant had decided to do away with a fundamental presupposition common to all attempts to describe how humans come to know the world: namely, that what we are trying to understand is the world itself. What we are really trying to understand, he now saw, is our picture of the world. And our natural tendency to think we are speaking about the world is what must be subjected to critique. Thus would be born a new “age of critique” that would initiate the downfall of humanity’s submission to the age-old idols of its own creation. This
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