1st Edition

Kant’s Theory of the Self

By Arthur Melnick Copyright 2009
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Part I Preliminary Overview; Chapter 1. The Reality of the Thinking Self; Chapter 2.The Paralogisms and Transcendental Idealism; Part II The Thinking Self; Chapter 3. The First Paralogism; Chapter 4. The Second Paralogism; Chapter 5. Transcendental Self-Consciousness; Chapter 6. Other Interpretations of the Paralogisms; Part III- The Cognizing Subject; Chapter 7. Empirical Apperception; Chapter 8. Pure Apperception; Part IV The Person as Subject; Chapter 9. Apperception and Inner Sense; Chapter 10. The Third Paralogism and Kant’s Conception of a Person; Part V The Subject and Material Reality; Chapter 11. The Embodied Subject; Chapter 12. The Fourth Paralogism

Biography

Arthur Melnick is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published several books on Kant’s philosophy including Space, Time, and Thought in Kant, and Themes in Kant’s Metaphysics and Ethics.