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KANT'TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİ

Year 2004, Issue: 39, 136 - 153, 01.07.2004

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References

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The Conciousness of Transcendental Self in Kant

Year 2004, Issue: 39, 136 - 153, 01.07.2004

Abstract

This paper examines one of Kant's most controversial concepts, namely the 'transcendental apperception'. Kant introduces this notion primarily for epistemological reasons, as it plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Although the transcendental apperception does not provide any substantial a priori knowledge about the nature of the thinking self - because we do not have any intuition of this self; Kant rejects the existence of intellectual or a priori intuition in human beings - it nevertheless yields pure a priori awareness of its existence and functions. This pure self-consciousness is neither an intuition nor even a concept, but rather an empty 'thought'. The thinking self which is characterized by Kant as the formal or the logical subject of thought, functions as the source of the categories and a priori principles of experience. As I have tried to show in this paper, however, Kant's notion of the transcendental apperception faces some serious problems which affect his theory of knowledge in general.

References

  • Allison, H. E., Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1983).
  • Brook, A., Kant and the Mind (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994).
  • Gram, M., S., The Transcendental Turn: The Foundation of Kant's Idealism (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1984).
  • Guyer, P., "Kant on Apperception and A Priori Synthesis," American Philosophical Quarterly 17 (1980), 205-12.
  • Kant, I., Critique of Pure Reason, çev. N. K. Smith (New York: St Martin's Press, 1965).
  • . Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, çev. M. Gregor (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974).
  • Keller, P., Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998).
  • Kitcher, P., "Kant's Real Self, Self and Nature in Kant's Philosophy içinde, A. W. Wood (ed.) (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1984).
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Primary Language Turkish
Journal Section Research Article
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Sahabettin Yalçın This is me

Publication Date July 1, 2004
Published in Issue Year 2004 Issue: 39

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APA Yalçın, S. (2004). KANT’TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİ. Felsefe Dünyası(39), 136-153.