Kant And Transcendentalism

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The core of my paper will be to analyze the complex relationship between Kant's Transcendental Realism. I will begin by analyzing how Kant paved the way for phenomenological thinking. I will hope to show how the various key concepts of Kant's philosophy paved the way for phenomenological thinking. This includes the Copernican turn, the antinomies and Kant's denial of dogmatic metaphysics. I will argue that Kant effectively paved the way for phenomenology by claiming that the phenomenal realm is all that we can really know anything about.
The paper will follow this notion by highlighting some of the more problematic notions in Kantian philosophy. I will mostly be dealing with the severe metaphysical and epistemological problems that come with

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