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Content:
A. Kant's Doctrine of the Known Object (A Refutation of
Wolff's Dualism and of Hume's Phenomenalism)
I. Kant’s Doctrine of the Known Object as Spatial and
Temporal
a. The teaching, in opposition to Hume, that space and time are unsensational and a priori
b. The teaching, in opposition to Wolff, that space and time are subjective
II. Kant’s Doctrine of the Categories (the Relations of
Known Objects)
a. The teaching, in opposition to Hume, that the known object
includes categories, necessary relations
1. The category of totality
2. The category of degree (implied in the discussion of
reality)
3. The category of (phenomenal) causality
4. The category of reciprocal connection
b, Kant’s teaching, in opposition to Wolff, that the categories
are subjective
c. Criticism of Kant’s doctrine of the necessity of the categories: —
Kant proves no more than logical necessity
B. Kant's Doctrine of Self and of Objects as related to Self (In opposition to Hume)
I. The Argument for the Existence of Self
Relations require a self as relater
II. The Doctrine of the Nature of Self
a. Transcendental and empirical self: Conceived as: —
1. Identical and momentary self
2. Thinking and sensationally conscious self
3. Universal and particular self
(The universal self is inferred from the existence of objects outside me.)
b. Subject self and object self
C. Kant's Negative Doctrine that Ultimate Reality is Unknown
I. The Doctrine of Things-in-themselves as Unknown
(Comment: Kant does not prove the existence of things-in themselves.)
II. The Doctrine of the Real Self as Unknown
Arguments: —
We have no sensational consciousness and, therefore, no knowledge of a self. (Criticism)
A self cannot be both subject and object. (Criticism)
III. The Doctrine of God as Unknown
Refutation of: —
The ontological argument
The cosmological argument
The physico-theological argument
D. Kant's Correction of his Negative Doctrine
I. The Admission that Things-in-themselves might be Known
(the Hypothesis of the Noumenon)
II. The Admission that the Real Self is Known
a. The teaching that I am conscious of the real (or transcendental) self
b. The teaching that I know my moral self as real
c. The teaching that the moral self must be member of a society of free, blessed, and immortal selves
1. The freedom of the selves
2. The immortality of the selves
3. The blessedness of the selves
(Criticism of Kant’s attempt to prove immortality and blessedness.)
III. The Teaching that God must exist to assure the Existence of the Highest Good
(Criticism: Kant has not proved the existence of the highest good.)
#Philosophy
Content:
A. Kant's Doctrine of the Known Object (A Refutation of
Wolff's Dualism and of Hume's Phenomenalism)
I. Kant’s Doctrine of the Known Object as Spatial and
Temporal
a. The teaching, in opposition to Hume, that space and time are unsensational and a priori
b. The teaching, in opposition to Wolff, that space and time are subjective
II. Kant’s Doctrine of the Categories (the Relations of
Known Objects)
a. The teaching, in opposition to Hume, that the known object
includes categories, necessary relations
1. The category of totality
2. The category of degree (implied in the discussion of
reality)
3. The category of (phenomenal) causality
4. The category of reciprocal connection
b, Kant’s teaching, in opposition to Wolff, that the categories
are subjective
c. Criticism of Kant’s doctrine of the necessity of the categories: —
Kant proves no more than logical necessity
B. Kant's Doctrine of Self and of Objects as related to Self (In opposition to Hume)
I. The Argument for the Existence of Self
Relations require a self as relater
II. The Doctrine of the Nature of Self
a. Transcendental and empirical self: Conceived as: —
1. Identical and momentary self
2. Thinking and sensationally conscious self
3. Universal and particular self
(The universal self is inferred from the existence of objects outside me.)
b. Subject self and object self
C. Kant's Negative Doctrine that Ultimate Reality is Unknown
I. The Doctrine of Things-in-themselves as Unknown
(Comment: Kant does not prove the existence of things-in themselves.)
II. The Doctrine of the Real Self as Unknown
Arguments: —
We have no sensational consciousness and, therefore, no knowledge of a self. (Criticism)
A self cannot be both subject and object. (Criticism)
III. The Doctrine of God as Unknown
Refutation of: —
The ontological argument
The cosmological argument
The physico-theological argument
D. Kant's Correction of his Negative Doctrine
I. The Admission that Things-in-themselves might be Known
(the Hypothesis of the Noumenon)
II. The Admission that the Real Self is Known
a. The teaching that I am conscious of the real (or transcendental) self
b. The teaching that I know my moral self as real
c. The teaching that the moral self must be member of a society of free, blessed, and immortal selves
1. The freedom of the selves
2. The immortality of the selves
3. The blessedness of the selves
(Criticism of Kant’s attempt to prove immortality and blessedness.)
III. The Teaching that God must exist to assure the Existence of the Highest Good
(Criticism: Kant has not proved the existence of the highest good.)
#Philosophy
