Noumenon, plur. noumena, is a modern philosophic word used in many languages. It is borrowed without change from the Greek present middle and passive participle of the contract verb, noein (no-e-ein), “to know.” The present participle has a continuous aspect, so that noumenon means more exactly “a thing that is currently being continuously known.” It may mean specifically:
Philosophy and religion
- Noumenon, the conceived, as opposed to phainomenon, the sensed (Plato) or the inferred, or thing-in-itself, as opposed to phenomenon, the experienced thing (Kant)
- Noumenon, translation of Sat (Sanskrit), the real, as in the Pavamana Mantra
- Noumenon, as universal spiritual essence, God in Buddhism
- Noumenon, the transcendent Brahman
- Noumenon, realised by denial in Apophatic theology
- Noumenon, translation of Li, one of the Four Dharmadhātu of Tu-shun
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Noumena (band), a Finnish melodic death metal band
- Noumenon, a 2005 album by Absurd Minds
- "Noumenon", a song by Nevermore from the 2003 album Enemies of Reality
- "Noumenon and Phenomenon", a song by Scar Symmetry from the 2009 album Dark Matter Dimensions
Other arts and entertainment
- Noumenon, a 1953 choreography by Alwin Nikolais
- Noumenon, a 1992 work by Evan Oakley
- Noumenon, an unknown beast in the drawings of Charles Avery
- Noumenon, a 2006 sculpture by Steve Brudniak
- Noumenon, a 2017 novel by Marina J. Lostetter
- Noumena, a series of science fiction novels by Lindsay Ellis
See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.