diff --git a/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/index.md b/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/index.md index 154d9f302..f09d8ac4f 100644 --- a/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/index.md +++ b/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/index.md @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ draft: false - Henry E . Allison, [_Kant's Transcendental Idealism_](https://archive.org/details/professor-henry-e.-allison-kants-transcendental-idealism-an-interpretation-and-defense/mode/2up) ( - New Haven: Yale University Press, I 983) (Source, [Book Review](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80331.Kant_s_Transcendental_Idealism)) + New Haven: Yale University Press, I 983) ( + Source, [Book Review](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80331.Kant_s_Transcendental_Idealism)) ::: @@ -25,15 +26,15 @@ could ever be sufficient to establish the universal and necessary validity of th Kant agrees with Locke that we have no innate knowledge, that is, no knowledge of any particular propositions implanted in us by God or nature prior to the commencement of our individual experience. I2 But experience is the product both of external objects affecting our sensibility and of the operation of our cognitive faculties in response -to this effect (A I, B I), and Kant's claim is that we can have "pure" or a priori cognition of the contributions to -experience made by the operation of these faculties themselves, rather than of the effect of external objects on us in -experience. Kant divides our cognitive capacities into our receptivity to the effects of external objects acting on us -and giving us sensations, through which these objects are given to us in empirical intuition, and our active faculty for -relating the data of intuition by thinking them under concepts, which is called understanding, and forming judgments -about them. This division is the basis for Kant's division of the "Transcendental Doctrine of Elements" into the -"Transcendental Aesthetic," which deals with sensibility and its pure form, and the "Transcendental Logic," which deals -with the operations of the understanding and judgment as well as both the spurious and the legitimate activities of -theoretical reason. +to this effect, and Kant's claim is that we can have "pure" or a priori cognition of the contributions to experience +made by the operation of these faculties themselves, rather than of the effect of external objects on us in experience. +Kant divides our cognitive capacities into our receptivity to the effects of external objects acting on us and giving us +sensations, through which these objects are given to us in empirical intuition, and our active faculty for relating the +data of intuition by thinking them under concepts, which is called understanding, and forming judgments about them. This +division is the basis for Kant's division of the "Transcendental Doctrine of Elements" into the +"Transcendental Aesthetic," which deals with sensibility and its pure form, and the "Transcendental Logic," which +deals with the operations of the understanding and judgment as well as both the spurious and the legitimate activities +of theoretical reason. Transcendental Aesthetic ------------------------