Kant's theory of the self

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Kant's theory of the self

Arthur Melnick

(Routledge studies in eighteenth century philosophy, 6)

Routledge, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The self for Kant is something real, and yet is neither appearance nor thing in itself, but rather has some third status. Appearances for Kant arise in space and time where these are respectively forms of outer and inner attending (intuition). Melnick explains the "third status" by identifying the self with intellectual action that does not arise in the progression of attending (and so is not appearance), but accompanies and unifies inner attending. As so accompanying, it progresses with that attending and is therefore temporal--not a thing in itself. According to Melnick, the distinction between the self or the subject and its thoughts is a distinction wholly within intellectual action; only such a non-entitative view of the self is consistent with Kant's transcendental idealism. As Melnick demonstrates in this volume, this conception of the self clarifies all of Kant's main discussions of this issue in the Transcendental Deduction and the Paralogisms of Pure Reason.

Table of Contents

Preface PART I: Preliminary Overview Chapter One: The Reality of the Thinking Subject Chapter Two: The Paralogisms and Transcendental Idealism PART II: The Thinking Subject Chapter Three: The First Paralogism Chapter Four: The Second Paralogism Chapter Five: Transcendental Self-Consciousness Chapter Six: Other Interpretations of the Paralogisms PART III: The Cognizing Subject Chapter Seven: Empirical Apperception Chapter Eight: Pure Apperception PART IV: The Person as Subject Chapter Nine: Apperception and Inner Sense Chapter Ten: The Third Paralogism and Kant's Conception of a Person PART V: The Subject and Material Reality Chapter Eleven: The Embodied Subject Chapter Twleve: The Fourth Paralogism Notes Bibliography Index

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