A Too-short
outline
of
Kant's Epistemology
Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804)
Kant's books on metaphysics
- Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic (1785)
I. Kant's metaphysical question: "Are
Synthetic, a priori judgments about Noumena possible?"
Some terms
Aspects of the
Real
|
Phenomenon
(a) |
Noumenon
(a) |
Ways of Knowing
|
a
posteriori |
a
priori |
Kinds of propositions
|
synthetic |
analytic |
II. The Categories of Perception:
Transcendental Forms of perception: Space and Time
The Categories of Perception
Of
Quantity
|
Of
Quality
|
Of
Modality
|
Of Relation
|
Unity |
Reality |
Possibility
- Impossibility |
Inherence
- Subsistence |
Plurality
|
Negation |
Existence
- Non-existence |
Causality
- Dependence (cause & effect)
|
Totality |
Limitation |
Necessity
- Contingence |
Community
(reciprocity between agent & patient) |
Thus, the phenomenal world
is:
"The temporal, spatial, causal manifold."
|