The completeness of Kant’s metaphysical exposition of space
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Henny Blomme
Abstract
In the first edition of his book on the completeness of Kant’s table of judgments, Klaus Reich shortly indicates that the B-version of the metaphysical exposition of space in the Critique of pure reason is structured following the inverse order of the table of categories. In this paper, I develop Reich’s claim and provide further evidence for it. My argumentation is as follows: Through analysis of our actually given representation of space as some kind of object (the formal intuition of space in general), the metaphysical exposition will show that this representation is secondary to space considered as an original, undetermined and as such unrepresentable intuitive manifold. Now, following Kant, the representation of any kind of object involves diversity, synthesis and unity. In the case of our representation of space as formal intuition, this involves, firstly, a manifold a priori, i.e. space as pure form, delivered by the transcendental Aesthetic, secondly, a figurative, productive synthesis of that manifold, and, thirdly, the unity provided by the categories. Analysing our given representation of space – the task of the metaphysical exposition – amounts to dismantling its unity and determine its characteristics with respect to the categories.
© 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Titelseiten
- The completeness of Kant’s metaphysical exposition of space
- Difficulty Still Awaits: Kant, Spinoza, and the Threat of Theological Determinism
- Logica naturalis, Healthy Understanding and the Reflecting Power of Judgment in Kant’s Philosophy
- Beauty, Disinterested Pleasure, and Universal Communicability: Kant’s Response to Burke
- Remarque philologique sur le terme «Classe» dans le § 11 de la Critique de la raison pure
- Das Manuskript von Kants Brief an Kiesewetter vom 13. Oktober 1797
- „Mein Leben gleicht einem Roman …“: Kants Schüler Friedrich August Hahnrieder und seine Geschichte
- Buchbesprechungen
- Mitgliederversammlung der Kant-Gesellschaft
- Mainzer Kant-Symposium 2012
- 10.1515/kant-2012-0019
