Kant's Philosophical Revolution by Yovel Yirmiyahu

Author:Yovel, Yirmiyahu
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781400890286
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Schematic Presentation

Given the complexity of the progressive argument and its satellite arguments, it is difficult to present its course in a single final scheme. But one can sketch its territory with the following set of propositions (which can also be arranged differently).

PART 1

•Point of departure: we have a self-consciousness expressed as an identical “I think.”

•All our representations are possible only in relation to this “I think.”

•Human understanding, being discursive, does not grasp contents directly but only connects what is given to it.

•The act of connection derives not from experience but from the understanding itself.

•At the root of every connection there stands the unity of self-consciousness (the pure “transcendental subject”).

•An identical self-consciousness is impossible on the basis of a single representation.

•[Self-]consciousness can know itself only as the act of connection it is, and only by the mediation of actual connections it performs.

•The “I think” is possible only through connecting the manifold of representations as its own representations.

Interim conclusion: The identity of the “I think” is not given beforehand, but is realized by its action in uniting the manifold.

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