Monday, July 23, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The trouble
It is easy to see the trouble one has reading Kant for the first time when the following passage is regarded as constituting an introduction,
"Kant holds that we do not know our noumenal selves by any act of rational intuition (light of nature). For Kant, pure apperception is an act of spontaneity and as such is different from sensibility, which is a passive receptivity for sensible intuitions. The self for Kant becomes aware of itself and gains knowledge of itself only by bringing to self-consciousness (through a transcendental act of synthesis) the manifold intuitions provided by sensibility. Accordingly, the self knows itself only as an appearance (phenomenon)."
This is an introduction to the Prolegomena, which makes it an introduction to an introduction, and yet the writer still seems unaware that he is using at least nine words in one paragraph in a specialized manner.
"Kant holds that we do not know our noumenal selves by any act of rational intuition (light of nature). For Kant, pure apperception is an act of spontaneity and as such is different from sensibility, which is a passive receptivity for sensible intuitions. The self for Kant becomes aware of itself and gains knowledge of itself only by bringing to self-consciousness (through a transcendental act of synthesis) the manifold intuitions provided by sensibility. Accordingly, the self knows itself only as an appearance (phenomenon)."
This is an introduction to the Prolegomena, which makes it an introduction to an introduction, and yet the writer still seems unaware that he is using at least nine words in one paragraph in a specialized manner.
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