The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
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Chapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuestion of things in themselves has been at the center of a highly contentious debate regarding the proper meaning and import of Kant's transcendental idealism, that is, what, properly speaking, transcendental idealism is, or what it amounts to. Henry Allison made this point in a relatively recent arti The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuescle entitled “Transcendental Realism, Empirical Realism, and Transcendental Idealism" (which was largely devoted to this very issue), when he says thaThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
t “The debate regarding the interpretation of Kant's idealism is usually seen as turning on the best way to understand his transcendental distinction Chapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issueshout first advancing an interpretation of the transcendental distinction between appearances and things in themselves (TD), since how one interprets the former is a direct result of how one interprets the latter. That is, how one interprets Kant's TD directly governs how-one understands the fundamen The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuestal character of Kantian transcendentalism. So. in light of the centrality of the TD to the controversy surrounding Kant's transcendental idealism asThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
a whole, it is not surprising that one of the aims of this thesis is to come to terms with that very issue, of how- best to understand the idea of thiChapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issueshe fact that, since there is obviously no consensus on exactly what Kant meant with his formulation of the TD, or on exactly what the TD ultimately amounts to, multiple schools of thought have arisen for the sole purpose of tackling that very issue. With this basic understanding that there is no eas The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesy answer to the question of what exactly Kant intended his formulation of the TD to mean, it becomes clear that, as we attempt to arrive at the heartThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
of what the TD really consists in, we must first come to grips with exactly what these various exegetical schools of thought have to say about the TD,Chapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesly address the concerns, textual as well as systematic, that have arisen in reference to the particular Kantian concept under consideration.As I noted, there are many different interpretations of the precise meaning of Kant's TD, ranging (as we will see) from straightforward ontological interpretati The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesons which paint Kant as a1Henry E. Allison, "Transcendental Realism, Empirical Realism, and Transcendental Idealism," Kantian Review 11 (2006): 1.1traThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
ditional, Berkeleian metaphysician for whom the external, mind-independent world is nothing over and above a series of our mental representations, to Chapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesld, but rather as a bona fide direct realist for whom there really are external objects - in this case, appearances, not things in themselves - which causally “affect” US in a straightforwardly empiricist sense. Each of these interpretations will therefore be dealt with in the forthcoming stages of The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesthis thesis; it must also be noted here that common-sense suggests that they cannot carry an equal amount of exegetical weight, either in regards to tThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
heir textual consistency or in regards to their architectonic plausibility for that matter, and the most important implication this has for our purposChapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesm. Moreover, since there is obviously no conceivable way I can establish exactly what the TD amounts to within the context of Kantianism proper in a vacuum, as it were, independent of the various exegetical schools of thought which have as their concern the TD, as I see it, the simplest way of deali The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesng with the exegetical issues related to Kant's TD is simply to pose the all-important question: is there a reading of the TD that fits the texts, andThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
remains true to the more fundamental philosophical concerns of Kantianism in general? This question will no doubt form the basis of the first part ofChapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues will consist of three parts. In part 1, I will introduce the two conceptions at the heart of Kant's doctrine of the TD, appearances and things in themselves, with particular emphasis on the latter. In part 2, I will introduce the various interpretations of Kantian idealism in relation to the TD, ea The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesch of which will then (in part 3) be considered in relation to the texts.Part 1: An Introduction to Kant's Conceptions of Appearances and Things in ThThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
emselvesAs I indicated above, in the first part of this chapter 1 will introduce, by way of explication, the two central Kantian concepts at the heartChapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuests to which I here refer are nothing other than appearances and things in themselves. So, to that end, we should now consider these two concepts within the Critical context of transcendental idealism itself.2See Graham Bird, The Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary' on the Critique of Pure Reason (Chica The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesgo: Open Court, 2006), xii-xlv, where Bird first introduces his distinction between traditionalist and revolutionary accounts of Kantianism.2Early onThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
in (he “Transcendental Aesthetic” at A20/B34 Kant provides US with a definition of the notion of appearances (Erscheinungen), or rather “things that aChapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesuition; simply put, appearances, in other words, can best be understood as things or objects as we experience them under the a priori conditions of a possible experience. As we come to learn in the Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), an appearance is something that conforms to the formal-categorial struc The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesture of a possible experience, which essentially means two things: in the first place, it means that appearances are objects that conform to the basicThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
ứ priori forms of space and time, or to put it differently, appearances are spatio-temporal objects; secondly, it means that appearances are objects Chapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuescan be made sense of in terms of such concepts as unity, plurality, reality, negation, and the like. Another way of putting this is by saying (hat Kant takes the concept of appearances to signify nothing over and above the ordinary empirical constituents of our shared, spatio-temporal reality, with The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesthe result that appearances can include, on the one hand, such mundane spatio-temporal items such as tables, chairs, and computers, that is, items witThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
h which we are all intimately familiar, but it also means that they can include such things as atoms, neurons, and supernovas, for instance, items of Chapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesonform to both the subjective a priori forms of our empirical intuition, as well as to the most basic a priori (and thus once again subjective) categories of our understanding, appearances are obviously things that factor into our knowledge-claims about the state of reality, and it is for that reaso The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesn that we can say of them that they are things that are ultimately cognizable by US. Crudely put, the concept of appearances is the concept of thingsThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
that we can know.Additionally, one must remember that, beginning at A22/B37 of CPR, Kant draws a distinction between inner sense on one hand, and outeChapter 1: The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy: Exegetical IssuesIntroductionWithin recent years Immanuel Kant's concept The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesh inner sense, whereas the form of space becomes associated with the form of outer sense. Kant asserts that.By means of outer sense, a property of our mind, we represent to ourselves objects as outside us, and all without exception in space. In space, their shape, magnitude, and relation to one anot The Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issuesher are determined or determinable. Inner sense, by means of which the mind intuits itself or its inner state, yields indeed no intuition of the soulThe Conception of Things in Themselves in the Critical Philosophy Exegetical Issues
itself as an object; but there is nevertheless a determinate form [namely time] in which alone the intuition of inner states is possible, and everythiGọi ngay
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