Kant
The object cannot have any truth that is separable from the subject.
- that truth us always bound to human cognitive faculty
Explanatory value: make claim - incorporate into concepts
CONCEPT
- discursivity
- spontaniety
INTUITION
- passivity
- receptivity
Enlightenment -> Reason
- Reflects critical function
- presents as a power of explanation
CRITICAL: As extreme takes reason to Skepticism
- this conclusions is unacceptable for KANT
genuine knowledge is divorced from experience
EXPLANATION: A radical Naturalism -> Measurable and Accountable
- also unacceptable for KANT
+ TRANSCENDING DIVISION OF REASON
Community within METAPHYSICS
KANT: agrees with HUME in separating instances and human understanding (of CAUSE and EFFECT)
- BUT - KANT: wishes to understand both as experience
*EXAMINE HOW we COGNISE before we cognise!
-> what is reasons's relationship to reason (itself).
That traditional metaphysicscould get to unconditioned truth outside HUMAN CONDITION => only skepticism.
KANT: remove the 'other' domain that is unknowable. The 'other' domain is only knowable by itself.
The CONDITION of EXPERIENCE
* Cognition is the condition of experience as it allows our judging and provides us with the conceptual architectonic for having experience.
Leibneiz's position - TRANSCENDENTAL REALISM is unable to show how we recognise the property tht the mind asserts to be true of the object unless we first saw the propert in the object, in which case the truth is not a priori.
KANT claims that RATIONALISTS tacitly rely on imperial facts.
+ What are the conditions of experience? How are they transcendental? -> this is Critique of Reason!
An account is ALWAYS a human condition ACCOUNT; of any object or concept.
KANT"S CORNICOPIAN REVOLUTION:
-> that the 'truth' is moved from the OBJECT to the SUBJECT - the human condition.
* That the subject constitutes the object.
-> our cognitive capacity
TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM & the OBJECT of EXPERIENCE
SENSORY:
- contigent : a posteriori
- truth of fact
- true by experience
NON - EMPIRICAL:
- necessary
- a priori : truth of reason
- true by logic
This rigid division is found in traditional Metaphysics - however KANT will show how this can 'collapse', thus becoming less rigid.
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