Reality is veiled: The subject that knows and the limits of the objective

In this extremely brief essay I trace and contextualize the rupture between objective and subjective knowledge, beginning with the Kantian reconciliation of empiricism and rationalism and the slow but resolute march that this led from idealism to phenomenology to existentialism and postmodern philosophy ending in contemporary discourse and the dangers of subjectivity that appears objective. The problem is urgent and requires a return to the Kantian origin rather than a slippery slope of moral depravity that current philosophies have led to.