Shlomo Maimon
Hello to his honor, I read your book, Truth and Unstable, and I saw that you mentioned there the voice of prophecy of the Rabbi HaNazir and the Rambam in relation to looking into ideas, but it seems to me that the foundation for this way of thinking is something along the lines of Shlomo Maimon’s idealism.
Maimon believed in response to Kant that in order to establish science, it is necessary to assume that intellectual laws are derived from the creative intellect, which is the active part of consciousness that is unknown to our receptive consciousness. For a formulation like this, I can understand what is meant by looking into ideas, since they exist within us. However, I saw here when I typed the question that your honor does not hold to idealism. What then establishes the “looking into ideas”?
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This is not about solipsism, since such an approach assumes that other subjects do not have an inner life and only I do. What Maimon replies to Kant is that if you want to establish science and you recognize the intellectual lawfulness of the world, then you can assume that every creator (unfortunately in the theory of ideas) creates the rules of reality through his intellectual laws, and then this in itself is the ability to adjust our consciousness with the active, unconscious part of consciousness that creates reality according to his rules.
In Two Carts I addressed the two options: looking inward, and then adding an assumption that there is conformity to the laws that prevail outside, or assuming an ideological look outward. It doesn't matter.
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