noumenal
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- adjective
- /nuːˈmɛnəl/
- Formal
- Satisfaction has to do with sharing of power coming from collectivity, a collectivity organized into rituals, that is, aesthetic forms whose appeal needs little justification; they have a noumenal aura as ritual and inspire awe hallowed by tradition.
- noumenal realm
Examples
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His equation of artistic knowledge with this sense of religious insight reflects the effort of German philosophers during the early nineteenth century to penetrate the noumenal world via artistic perception.
Academic text (1992) -
Without any of the problematic claims about the transcendental status of reason, the reduction of emotions to "incentives" or "inclinations," the meshing of "maxims" with the apriori machinery of the categorical imperative, or claims about the mysterious noumenal status of freedom.
Academic text (2001) -
Subject is connected to the noumenal realm of spirit and freedom; object is related to the world of nature and determinism.
Academic text (1991) -
The "real" that the subject as scission brings forward is neither in the sensible world nor is it to be understood as a noumenal entity.
Academic text (2017) -
In Western thinking, it comes ultimately from a noumenal realm above the phenomenological world of socially contracted moral norms.
Academic text (2016) -
Scruton is a convert to Anglicanism, but he is also a Kantian, and so he believes that his attitude toward noumenal claims, including most religious claims, must be agnostic.
Blog text (24) -
In Kantian terminology, they are all "phenomenal manifestations of the noumenal real-in-itself." (n11)
Academic text (1999) -
When Emerson supplemented the latter with the assurance of access to the noumenal realm provided by Kant's successors, when, that is, he was able to speak of the "Reason" as offering a secure grasp on reality to individuals, his armory was complete.
Academic text (1992) -
If theoretical philosophy independently confirms the distinction between an intelligible, noumenal sphere beyond the sensible, phenomenal one, then our membership in a world of understanding and a corresponding faculty of a priori freedom can be justified.
Academic text (2017) -
The noumenal world exists beyond our sensory experiences and cannot be perceived directly.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
noumenal = noumenon (semi-transparent) = noumen + al
The adjective is regularly formed from the specialized noun 'noumenon' with '-al', but the philosophical sense is technical rather than immediately familiar to most learners.
Etymology
The word noumenal comes from the Greek root nous meaning 'mind' or 'to think'. Think of it as different from phenomenal, which means 'what appears to us'. So noumenal refers to the thing itself, the reality beyond our senses.