Kant’s Thesis “Being Is Not a Real Predicate” Interpreted by Heidegger
... as in Kant’s interpretation of the concepts of ‘being’ and ‘existence’, which are central to the development of a fundamental ontology. Heidegger reduces the opaqueness of these concepts to the problem of the definition of the concept of ‘perception’; and, challenging Kant’s identification of existence with ‘perception’, argues that existence cannot be identical either to the act of perception, or to the perceived object, nor to its ‘perceivedness’ (Wahrgenommenheit). Heidegger ...
The cultural code of Saint Petersburg: the city in the perception of its residents
... from other urban environments; it is interpreted through images transmitted from one generation to the next and preserved in the city’s cultural memory. However, studies that examine the city’s cultural code through the analysis of residents’ perceptions—those who serve as its carriers and transmitters—and that address their mental attitudes and subjective modes of imagining the city remain relatively scarce. This article, therefore, presents the results of an empirical study of the cultural ...
