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from the other. When something is posited absolutely, for instance, what is understood as belonging to this existent is the same as what is contained within its concept – the determinations of what exists and the predicates or characteristic marks of its relative position are one and the same. Kant writes, …I maintain that nothing more is posited in the existent thing [Existirenden] than is posited in a merely possible [Möglichen] (for then one is speaking of the predicates of the thing). But more is posited through an existent thing [Existirenden] than is posited through a merely possible thing [Möglichen], for positing through an existing thing [Existirenden] involves the absolute positing [Position] of the thing itself [Sache selbsts] as well. 41 In this regard, the difference between what is possible and what is actual lays in that through which the relations of determinations are posited: the copula or what is existent. What absolute Position adds to the Position of a copula is the Sache selbst. Thus, positing through what exists entails simultaneously not only the set of possible relations of determination, but also its logical character and coherence. Absolute position is to be understood as an actual instantiation of that possible unity in Dasein [what is there – the actual]. Thus, out of Kant‘s definition and discussion of the concept of Setzung in BDG, there are three key radical components of such idea: that it means Sein überhaupt; that there are two ways of considering it (i.e., relative or absolute/ possible or existent); and that when being in general is posited through what exists, its relative position is contained therein. 41 Ak: 2:75. Walford, 120 (emphasis added). Original: ―[...] so sage ich: in einem Existirenden wird nichts mehr gesetzt als in einem blos Möglichen (denn alsdann ist die Rede von den Prädicaten desselben), allein durch etwas Existirendes wird mehr gesetzt als durch ein blos Mögliches, denn dieses geht auch auf absolute Position der Sache selbst.‖ 26
In the context of the BDG, the nature of Setzung plays an essential role in Kant‘s construction of the proof for God‘s existence – an entity whose Dasein must be shown to be absolutely necessary. In order to be able to ground the unconditional necessity of this existence, Kant develops the framework within which the two senses of Setzung discussed above are brought into relation with the third category of modality: necessity. A condition for doing this is to establish that in Setzung, possibility as relative position be shown to be conditioned by the rule of contradiction in such a way that a necessary relationship to existence be established. In other words, the problem to be solved is: on the basis of what can a notion of possibility as mere relations of determination be the inner possibility of what is posited absolutely? The capacity to answer this is what leads to and distinguishes his proof from those who came before him. Following is a brief outline of his argument for establishing the conditions for inner possibility and on the basis of this, the foundation for the proof of god‘s existence: 42 1. Relative position or Sein überhaupt understood as logical relations of determinations within an absolute position, that is to say ―inner possibility,‖ is composed two elements: a. Formal or logical element in possibility b. Material or real element of possibility Sein überhaupt posited through the copula of a judgment is necessarily governed by the principle of contradiction in two senses. First, in so far as no contradictory judgment can be thought. Put differently, the possibility of the unity of a subject and a predicate would be unthinkable if contradictory. This is what Kant means here by ―formal or logical element.‖ 42 Depending on the reader‘s familiarity with the general structure of the proof, it may be sufficient to attend to the first two points and then jump to the short summary commentary on page 13. 27
Page 1 and 2: The Doctrine of Self-positing and R
Page 3 and 4: Abstract of the Dissertation The Do
Page 5 and 6: Contents Abbreviations vi Preface v
Page 7 and 8: Preface The interest in the Opus po
Page 9 and 10: Acknowledgments I am in the debt of
Page 11 and 12: Introduction The Selbstsetzungslehr
Page 13 and 14: of receptivity‖ reveals also the
Page 15 and 16: enables thinkers in the twenty firs
Page 17 and 18: form of ―principles of synthesis
Page 19 and 20: a transition that has its own ―sp
Page 21 and 22: the English language literature tha
Page 23 and 24: his account was circular. As Först
Page 25 and 26: fascicle written by Kant between 18
Page 27 and 28: the doctrine of self-positing attem
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Page 33 and 34: ii. a. Ontological Proof In its com
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Page 41 and 42: . We know that a condition for inne
Page 43 and 44: Realerklährung - an explanation of
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Page 47 and 48: Negation can also result from chang
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Page 55 and 56: elations of thoroughgoing determina
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Page 63 and 64: category causality in the second an
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Page 69 and 70: points to the fact that in the act
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and not actuality. 103 These fields
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functions as ground to a universal
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appearance, phenomenon, and noumeno
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Handschrift, when he writes: The mi
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thought. While the spirit of the cr
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faculties of representation in ligh
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particularly in their presence, uni
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knower to thin an objective represe
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doctrine, the name is oftentimes qu
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to intuition. This status brings to
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Chapter Three: The Analytic Level 1
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―Paralogisms‖ section. 136 Desp
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the Selbstsetzungslehre. In this re
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Not being able to be thought by the
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This connection between the single
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it concerns the possibility of the
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perspective of its relation to the
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apperception and b) the synthetic o
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and the section ―On the Paralogis
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synthetic determination of its intu
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on the possibility of attaching the
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distinguished from this ―I‖). 1
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object. 177 The consciousness of my
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doctrine. One finds, in fact, that
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perspective, contained analytically
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an inference: [...] 186 The first s
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this follows from the fact that for
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feeling can be said to be a form of
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that of which we are conscious as o
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true, the nature of intuition concr
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This formulation of the ―I am‖
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Chapter Four: The Ontological Level
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of identity, the analytic containme
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there Kant nevertheless asks: ―An
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objectification and ―I am‖ as V
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The first synthetic act of consciou
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introducing a different field of de
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where the earlier indeterminate emp
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What is given first to the power of
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epresentation that was given prior
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outside itself, which it can then d
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ground that can accommodate the exp
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These passages by no means say the
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sensible‖ (as Deleuze would phras
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schematization. What that is like w
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from which the ―I think‖ gains
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The path taken to arrive at a basic
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As seen in chapter four, the relati
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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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S. Harris. Revised Edition. Indiana
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Critique of Pure Reason. Chicago, U
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