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Kant and the Production of the Antinomy of Pure Reason

  • Miguel Alejandro Herszenbaun EMAIL logo
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Abstract

In this article, I claim that the Antinomy of pure reason emerges as the result of synthetic activities that require succession. In this regard, I show that cosmological conflicts involve different kinds of representations: (1) cosmological ideas, purely conceptual representations of the unconditioned and the product of non-temporal synthetic activities; and (2) putative complete series of spatiotemporal conditions, which require temporal synthetic activities. As I show, purely conceptual representations cannot produce cosmological conflicts: The Antinomy requires the interaction of reason, understanding, and sensibility. I also discuss the maxim and principle of pure reason, how they lead to the unconditioned (and its different notions), and how the cosmological syllogism produces the Antinomy.

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Prof. Dr. Karin de Boer for her helpful comments on this paper, begun during my research stay at the University of Leuven. I am also indebted to Prof. Dr. Mario Caimi, with whom I have had the opportunity to discuss in detail many of the ideas developed here.

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