Wednesday, March 3, 2010

5 Questions

1.What exactly is meant by Kant’s use of “manifold?”
2.For another definition, what does Kant mean when he discusses “consciousness?” (CPR 231)
3.How does Kant specifically justify the universal validity of transcendental ideality for all human persons?
4.As time is an “inner sense” does that mean it is a faculty of the mind or is it something else entirely?
5.What role does judgment have in regards to understanding? Kant mentions that Judgment is “the representation of a representation,” I am not entirely sure what is meant by this (CPR 205)

1 comment:

Elizabeth Cafaro said...

1. I took Kant's use of manifold to mean the many alternate possible realities that have yet to be synthesized into a concrete thought or judgment. I believed it to imply that there are a an infinite number of perceptions to be taken into account when considering an object and that all these perceptions form the various 'manifolds' of the object prior to a cohesive definition and classification of said object. I could be wrong though, I spend a lot of time inferring things about his jargon.