KANT'TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİ

This paper examines one of Kant's most controversial concepts, namely the 'transcendental apperception'. Kant introduces this notion primarily for epistemological reasons, as it plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Although the transcendental apperception does not provi...

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Main Author: Sahabettin Yalçın
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Language:English
Published: Türk Felsefe Derneği 2004-07-01
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description This paper examines one of Kant's most controversial concepts, namely the 'transcendental apperception'. Kant introduces this notion primarily for epistemological reasons, as it plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Although the transcendental apperception does not provide any substantial a priori knowledge about the nature of the thinking self - because we do not have any intuition of this self; Kant rejects the existence of intellectual or a priori intuition in human beings - it nevertheless yields pure a priori awareness of its existence and functions. This pure self-consciousness is neither an intuition nor even a concept, but rather an empty 'thought'. The thinking self which is characterized by Kant as the formal or the logical subject of thought, functions as the source of the categories and a priori principles of experience. As I have tried to show in this paper, however, Kant's notion of the transcendental apperception faces some serious problems which affect his theory of knowledge in general.
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spelling doaj-art-5bde41cd1942436087319333b35601d42025-02-02T13:23:46ZengTürk Felsefe DerneğiFelsefe Dünyası1301-08752004-07-01391361532040KANT'TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİSahabettin Yalçın0Muğla Üniversitesi, Felsefe Bölümü.This paper examines one of Kant's most controversial concepts, namely the 'transcendental apperception'. Kant introduces this notion primarily for epistemological reasons, as it plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Although the transcendental apperception does not provide any substantial a priori knowledge about the nature of the thinking self - because we do not have any intuition of this self; Kant rejects the existence of intellectual or a priori intuition in human beings - it nevertheless yields pure a priori awareness of its existence and functions. This pure self-consciousness is neither an intuition nor even a concept, but rather an empty 'thought'. The thinking self which is characterized by Kant as the formal or the logical subject of thought, functions as the source of the categories and a priori principles of experience. As I have tried to show in this paper, however, Kant's notion of the transcendental apperception faces some serious problems which affect his theory of knowledge in general.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1870251kantselftranscendentalknowledge.
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KANT'TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİ
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title KANT'TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİ
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title_full_unstemmed KANT'TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİ
title_short KANT'TA TRANSANDANTAL BEN BÎLÎNCİ
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self
transcendental
knowledge.
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