PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Noumenon, Gnosiology, Transcendental Idealism

• School: Eastern Oregon University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 101
• Professor: Albert Smith

Document Summary

The division of the critique of pure reason. In the investigation of the intellectual powers of the transcendental subject, kant distinguishes two sources of human knowledge: sensitivity (sinnlichkeit) and understanding (verstand). "there are two sources of human knowledge, which perhaps spring from a common, but unknown root, namely sensitivity and understanding. Objects are given to us through sensitivity, and through understanding they are thought out. The understanding has, moreover, two levels: self- understanding (verstand) and higher reason (vernunft). The critique of pure reason follows the scheme of these three gnoseological powers: Transcendental doctrine of the elements: transcendental aesthetics, sensitivity or sinnlichkeit. 1: transcendental logic, transcendental analysis, understanding or verstand, transcendental dialectics, superior reason or vernunft. Transcendental aesthetics studies the a priori forms of sensibility and tries to solve the question of the possibility of mathematics. Transcendental logic is dedicated to the study of intellectual powers and their a priori forms.