PHI 3382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Philosophy, Apperception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 3382
• Professor: Jeffrey Reid

Document Summary

Editor of novel (green) himself finds this section is extremely difficult. We know that knowledge must come from within. He"s trying to confer objectivity: objectivity must be conferred by human subjects. The universality of these forms is what is going to guarantee the necessity of knowledge. How can there be a relation between objectivity and subjectivity: kant is trying to relate these two concepts, they are linked via: Representations etc: all of this happens within the broader umbrella term: transcendental. This is kant"s project: how can we explain how objectivity/subjectivity works. Something that is particularly interesting is the role of imagination and the appearance of self-consciousness: we can look at self-consciousness as a subset or type of consciousness. We"re trying to ground a universal science or universal method. We have 3 sources of knowledge that makes understanding possible: the bottom: time and space. The configuring of data in time and space is a form of synthesizing.