ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role feeling and common sense play in some parts of the critical philosophy. The motivation springs from a surprising reference to feeling in Kant's orientation essay. Kant's orientation essay is generally regarded as his contribution to the pantheism controversy. Geographical orientation is required when one needs to find one's way from one region of space into another or from one area of forest to another. In the course of determining direction, embodied subjects reveal something about themselves: their sidedness. This sidedness was always there, of course, a natural given according to Kant, but it remains hidden in its familiarity, unless, of course, people are mistaken in labeling something right or left. In the case of the judgment of taste, something is revealed about the subject as well. These discussions reveal that the empirical world is not constituted merely in virtue of transcendental conditions, as Kant had argued in the Critique of Pure Reason.
