Emmanuel: A theodicy

The hallmark of the transcendental is that it is non-phenomenal; in other words, it is supposed bereft of all feeling. Whatever form the transcendental is deemed to take, for example, Cartesian matter or Kantian noumena, we argue that there can be no such thing. Rather, being is feeling and feeling being. God and finite creatures, whether the latter be conscious or not, must be feeling beings, must be phenomenal.