Inaugral Dissertation Character of KANT +> PHILOSOPHICAL HOME -> critically challenging philosophical truth
=> sifting through many viewpoints (encyclopeadic knowledge)

Self criticism leads to "Critique of Pure Reason"
* Begins with schematic writings that critique others (such as Wolf)

KANTS METAPHYSICS: principle of sufficient reason (purpose)
-> explaining fundamental rationale

TRANSCENDENTAL REALISM: => reason alone / intelligence
-> Leibniz
-. Wolf
EMPIRICISM => experiemce / sensibility

The Inaugral Dissertation grants the validity of BOTH Realism and Empiricism
-> identified problem as their 'state of separateness'

HUME:
-> removal of rationale from nature
-> that people infer REASON (cause and effect) in NATURE
-> causation cannot be taken from objects themselves -> it is something we impose

Inaugral Dissertation -> identifies (2) divisions -> then 'passes them up'

Sensuality:
sensibility is the receptibility of the subject through which it is possible that its represented state should be affected in a certain manner bu the prescence o fsome object...
- PHENOMENON -

Intelligence:
rationality is the faculty of the subject through which it is able to represent things that cannot by their own nature come before the senses of that subject...'
- NOUMENON -

*Sensitive Cognition:
-> how the subject is modified by the object
(392/54)

REPRESENTATION:
+ relation between mind and world
+ meaning is obtained because it refers to something other than itself
* How does the sound relate to the external world?

INTELLECT
+ Elentic -> prevents contamination
+ Dogmatic -> general principles

Grasps the ideal form of 'sensible' objects.
-> without creating a separate world of ideals (similar to PLATO?)

Elentic => housekeeping - separates phenomenon from nuomenon
Dogmatic => position to discern universal concepts
(ID 411/70)

Intellectual intuition is a Platonic concept: "it was the form of insight transcending all discursive thinking where the intellect had a pure vision of the forms themselves". (beiser 2002 pg. 37)

* Sensible knowledge is not an illusion
-> assert the existence of objects

7) TRANSITION to the 'Critique of Pure Reason' (CPR)
Intellectual Cognition still allowss Quasi-Platonic concepts
-> things (abstract) that are still wholly bound to intellect

Sense / Intellect => central division (CPR)
Inaugral Dissertation => worked this division -> upheld and defended
CPR => rejects division -> aims to blend the two

LETTER to HERTZ (self-criticism)
1) " If the representation contains only the manner in which the subject is affected by the object then it is easy to see how the [representation] is in conformity with the obbject as an affect in accord with its cause."
(130/81)

2) "If the object were created by the representation [as in the divine intuition] the conformity of these representations to the object could be understood."
(130/81-2)

* Our intuitions and our intellect must be able to applu to the same object of experience

Intellect must relate to the spatio/temporal world of sensibility
+> in order to experience 'one must involve intellect and perceptibility (sensibility)'.

+> concepts must show their essential relation to the correlating object

* KANT combines the (2) faculties "which, while quite different, can supply objectively valid judgments only in conjunction with each other". (A 371/B 327)

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