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title: Reading Notes of "Critique of Pure Reason"
published: 2024-07-29
title: Lese-Notizen die „Kritik der reinen Vernunft“
published: 2024-12-27
description: A Masterpiece of Idealism of Anti-Idealism - Transcendental Idealism
image: cover.png
tags: [Philosophy]
category: English
category: German
draft: false
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Kant argues that our mathematical, physical, and quotidian knowledge of nature requires certain judgments that are
"synthetic" rather than "analytic," that is, going beyond what can be known solely in virtue of the contents of the
concepts involved in them and the application of the logical principles of identity and contradiction to these concepts,
and yet also knowable _a priori_, that is, independently of any particular experience since no particular experience
could ever be sufficient to establish the universal and necessary validity of these judgments.
Die Transscendentale Aesthetik
------------------------------

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, 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
------------------------

Kant attempts to distinguish the contribution to cognition made by our receptive faculty of sensibility from that made
solely by the objects that affect us, and argues that space and time are pure forms of all intuition contributed by our
own faculty of sensibility, and therefore forms of which we can have a priori knowledge.

This is the basis for Kant's resolution of the debate about space and time that had raged between the Newtonians, who
held space and time to be self-subsisting entities existing independently of the objects that occupy them, and the
Leibnizians, who held space and time to be systems of relations, conceptual constructs based on non-relational
properties inhering in the things we think of as spatiotemporally related

:::tip[Further Reading]

The classical presentation of this dispute is in the correspondence between Leibniz and the Newtonian Samuel Clarke,
published by Clarke in 1717 after Leibniz's death the previous year; see H. G . Alexander, ed.,[_The Leibniz-Clarke
Correspondence_](https://archive.org/details/leibnizclarkecor00clar/mode/2up) (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 1956).
Auf welche Art und durch welche Mittel sich auch immer eine Erkenntniss auf Gegenstände beziehen mag, die Anschauung. Diese findet aber nur statt, so fern uns der Gegenstand gegeben wird; dieses aber ist wiederum nur dadurch möglich, dass er das Gemüth auf gewisse Weise afficire. Die Fähigkeit, Vorstellungen durch die Art, wie wir von Gegenstände afficirt werden, zu bekommen, heisst Sinnlichkeit.

:::tip[Die Fähigkeit, Vorstellungen durch die Art, wie wir von Gegenstände afficirt werden, zu bekommen, heisst Sinnlichkeit.]
Die Fähigkeit heisst Sinnlichkeit. -> Die Fähigkeit, Vorstellungen durch die Art zu bekommen, heisst Sinnlichkeit. -> Welche Art? wie wir von Gegenstände afficirt werden.
:::

Kant's alternative to both of these positions is that space and time are neither subsistent beings nor inherent in
things as they are in themselves, but are rather only forms of our sensibility, hence conditions under which objects of
experience can be given at all and the fundamental
principle of their representation and individuation

Kant's thesis that space and time are pure forms of intuition leads him to the paradoxical conclusion that although
space and time are _empirically real_, they are _transcendentally ideal_, and so are the objects given in them. Although
the precise meaning of this claim remains subject to debate, in general terms it is the claim that it is only from
the human standpoint that we can speak of space, time, and the spatiotemporality of the objects of experience, thus
that we cognize these things not as they are in themselves but only as they appear under the conditions of our
sensibility. This is Kant's famous doctrine of __transcendental idealism__

### Kant's Transcendental Idealism

:::tip[Source]

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, 1983 (CPR, Cambridge, p.706,
[Book Review](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80331.Kant_s_Transcendental_Idealism))

:::

- Transcendental idealism is a metaphysical theory that affirms the uncognizability of the "real" (__things in
themselves__) and relegates cognition to the purely subjective realm of representations (appearances).
- The basic assumption is simply that the mind can acquire these materials only as aresult of being "affected"
by things in themselves.
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