ABSTRACT
In this chapter I consider a general trait of non-noumenal reality for Kant: namely that it is never intrinsic substantial complete reality that acts but always mere potency or capacity. My interpretation of the Kantian person has been that it is an ongoing capacity for being a subject or for being an action of spontaneity from which thoughts emerge. Although this action is not intuitable, it is still part of the non-noumenal status of the person according to my interpretation of Kant. To the extent that this interpretation of the person fi ts in with the characterization of non-noumenal reality generally as consisting of capacities or potencies throughout (with no fully intrinsic action of entities underlying them) to be defended in this chapter, I will have further evidence that the Kantian thinking subject, as non-noumenal, is the activation of a capacity.
