- Why does Transcendental Idealism require Transcendental Deduction?
- Why does Kant consider arithmetic to be an a priori synthetic judgment?
- Why are subjective conditions necessarily objectively valid?
- What is empirical reality and what is the idea of empirical reality opposed to?
- And this last one may be a little early for where we are in the text, but how does God fit into Kant's theory of Transcendental Idealism?
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
My Five Questions
Ok, so I went through my notes and came up with questions on some things I still do not understand, though Michael already took some of mine.
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2. I think that Kant identifies transcendental deduction as a necessity for transcendental idealism only because he had to separate it from empirical deduction which would result in empirical realism which Kant is against. As you can see in on of my questions I'm not exactly sure exactly what transcendental deduction consists of but I believe Kant makes a point of naming it and identifying it as a necessary process in order to explain how we would gather information about concepts relating to objects apriori and not just as a result of experience.
4. I presume that empirical reality, in the traditional sense, solely pertains to our sensations without regard to a priori concepts. Thus, empiricism would essentially entail a haphazard analysis of the manifold without consciously grounding anything with the concepts of pure understanding.
I think that Kant would say that we must admit of a priori synthesis, which is a subjective affair, and only make empirical judgments based on this synthesis. This may seem strange because making empirical judgments usually implies that we are able to objectively know what we experience, but in Kant's case it seems that the rules, or principles, that we impose on appearances are more real than the appearances themselves. In effect, he leaves Hume in the dust: whereas causality has a transcendental idealistic foundation in Kant's philosophy, it is nothing more than what we observe, albeit groundlessly, in Hume's notion of empiricism.
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