REVOLUSI KOPERNIKAN IMANUEL KANT dan THOMISME TRANSENDENTAL

Abstract

Transcendental Thomism aimed at bridging the gap that separated  the thought of Aquinas 
from the Kantian idealism that dominated Continental  philosophy. For Transcendental Thomism, 
Aquinas’s thought could complete the  ‘transcendental turn to the subject’ initiated by Kant. A 
‘critique of knowledge’  undertaken as laying bare ‘the conditions of possibility of knowledge,’ 
reveals the  forms and categories of human knowledge, but not the possibilities of objective  15  
knowledge. Such objective knowledge would be possible only on the basis of  
intellectual intuition, and since he discerned no such intuition, Kant discounted the  
objectivity of human knowledge. Transcendental Thomism maintained that Kant  
became an idealist because he was not consistent in his own transcendental reflection on  
the a priori condition of human knowledge. Knowing is an operation, a movement, a  
tendency toward an end. It insisted that a critique of knowledge revealed the objective  
dynamism of human knowledge, culminating in objective judgments of existence. In  
other words, authentic subjectivity leads to objectivity.