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core idea of self-objectification and it does so without use of Object or Gegenstand: self- consciousness is a logical act that gives itself a representation of itself—makes itself into an object—that is, however, empty of any manifold of intuition or any other determination. It also maintains the juxtaposition of two spheres that at this level still remain separate: thought and intuition. Keeping in mind both the open debate on the use of these terms in Kant‘s work as a whole and the overall consistency apparent in the Op (whether in the use of the terms or in the core idea of this first level of the structure of the doctrine of self-positing), there are at least three ways to proceed regarding the question of the congruency among the above quoted passages and, hence, whether or not the interpretation given so far is adequate enough. First, one could claim simply that in the passage in which the term Gegenstand appears, despite of the fact that the objectification that is being discussed is merely in thought, what we have are simple slippages in Kant‘s writing. After all, the text is not a finished one and, while it has been considered a manuscript, the last fascicles that are the subject of the current analysis are the least systematic and the ones written during Kant‘s most advanced age. Such slippage, thus, can hardly be unexpected. If this is the case, and taking into account the other more consistent passages added to this discussion, then the analysis thus far ought to be sufficient. If, however, this is not to be taken as a slippage, then it is possible to interpret the use of the term Gegenstand in the first passage as an indication of the movement or transition that the doctrine of self-positing embodies as a whole: the transition between the logical subject and the concrete or real one. As such this passage can be read as anticipating the entirety of the doctrine or, at the very least, as revealing the tension or struggle in Kant‘s own thinking as he works out this 122
doctrine. One finds, in fact, that in those passages in which Kant writes exclusively about self-consciousness, there is no question that we are merely speaking of pure empty thought and the use of Object is predominant; but when Kant engages with the idea of self-consciousness in relation to the faculty of representation, then the tension in vocabulary arises. This tension can be seen in the first quoted passage from the Op, The first act of the faculty of representation is that through which the subject makes itself into an object of its representations (conscientia sui ipsius) and belongs to logic. [It is a] representation through concepts or the thought of a given Object, and is analytic. 180 Here the topic is self-consciousness in relation to the faculty of representation and Kant not only introduces both terms, but also seems to reverse the function of the two. This can be contrasted to many of the above quoted passages from the Op in which self- consciousness is the main subject matter and the used term is Object; that is to say in the 3 rd , 4 th , 5 th and 6 th , as well as in the explanatory clause that follows ―self-consciousness‖ in the 2 nd one. All that is meant by this observation is that the sphere of Gegenstand, which if we follow Caygill and Allison is the one associated with intuition and its manifold and, hence, not thought alone, is brought into the discourse when the faculty of representation appears as the main subject matter. This could be taken as support for the idea that the terms appear together and even as exchangeable once Kant appears to be thinking the transition between thought and intuition in the concretization of the subject 180 Ak: 22:58. Förster, 216. Original: ―Der erste Act des Vorstellungsvermögens ist der da das Subject sich selbst zum Gegenstande seiner Vorstellungen macht (conscientia sui ipsius) und gehört zur Logik. Vorstellung durch Begriffe oder das Denken des gegebenen Objects und ist analytisch.‖ 123
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The Doctrine of Self-positing and R
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Abstract of the Dissertation The Do
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Contents Abbreviations vi Preface v
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Preface The interest in the Opus po
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Acknowledgments I am in the debt of
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Introduction The Selbstsetzungslehr
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of receptivity‖ reveals also the
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enables thinkers in the twenty firs
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form of ―principles of synthesis
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a transition that has its own ―sp
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the English language literature tha
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his account was circular. As Först
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fascicle written by Kant between 18
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the doctrine of self-positing attem
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preemptively with this retrospectiv
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meaning of its particular relations
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ii. a. Ontological Proof In its com
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ecause the only operative rule for
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In the context of the BDG, the natu
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3. It is unconditionally impossible
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. We know that a condition for inne
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Realerklährung - an explanation of
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ii. b. Setzung‘s Function as Posi
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Negation can also result from chang
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ii. Kritik der reinen Vernunft ii.
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foreclosed. This is precisely what
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none of this is particularly new. N
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elations of thoroughgoing determina
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that exhibits it must share in the
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of this ideal and its final personi
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it perceives only its effects. In a
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category causality in the second an
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Just as time functions as the form
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spontaneous nature. Or perhaps it r
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points to the fact that in the act
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latter (as for the other dynamical
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unity is expressed. In the second a
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Kant‘s new transcendental idealis
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idealize what can be claimed to be.
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The structure in the schematic of t
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In so far as the Selbstsetzungslehr
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MAN that, indeed, no science unders
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medical doctors, educators, and phy
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the grounding of the human sciences
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______ ―Metaphysical Foundations
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