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On Two Questions About Kant's Transcendental Logic

Posted on:2007-06-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M B ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360182988373Subject:Foreign philosophy
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As the core of Critique of Pure Reason, Kant's transcendental logic is very important in the whole Kantian Philosophy. Transcendental logic is universal and pure logic with relation to epistemic objects;it gets involved with epistemic objects, which for Kant are constructed by subjects themselves;it intends to research the way understanding should thinks and acts in thought rather than the way understanding thinks and acts, i.e.. Transcendental logic is to research into principles of correctly using understanding so as to investigate the origin, domain and objective validity of cognition and so on.Transcendental logic attempts to combine epistemic form with epistemic content. Kant discusses the problem that how cognition is possible, and so many other questions, for example, the genetic mechanism, components and the scope of cognition and so on. Therefore, Kant's epistemology accords with transcendental logic. He changes the situation in which logic dissociates from epistemology farther and farther since Aristotle. He attempts to unify epistemic form with epistemic content, but for his dualism, he excludes apriori intuitive forms (transcendental aesthetic) from transcendental logic, and insists reunifying the two parts he divided before depending on the function of understanding's form. It shows that form still predominates in Kant's transcendental logic. While on one hand he advocates that our "materials" can be provided by outside objects and on the other hand he states that form is provided by "ego", which means he actually fails to surpass the achievement of traditional logic and fails to unify form with content in a proper way.The motif of Kantian Philosophy is to limit knowledge so as to save space for belief. Facing the embarrassing metaphysics, Kantstates clearly that metaphysics is the nature of human beings and we should not get metaphysics research done once and for ever. Consequently, he claims to end up old metaphysics by criticizing reason to prepare for new metaphysics. Transcendental logic, belonging to Kant's metaphysical reconstruction, points out that the mistake of traditional metaphysics lies in the transcendental use of understanding, and that traditional metaphysics is impossible to be the metaphysics in terms of epistemology, which just right provides space for the reconstruction of ethical metaphysics.Kant attempts to concord empiricism with rationalism, while transcendental logic is just the result of this concord of logic (induction logic and form logic) insisted mainly by empiricism and rationalism. Hume claims that universal necessity of knowledge couldn't be gotten via induction, which prompts Kant's transcendental shift. Kant attempts to ensure the universal necessity of knowledge through apriori form, which indicates that he attaches importance on deduction and still depends on induction because he thinks that knowledge derives from experience. Kant's attempt of unifying epistemic form with epistemic content promotes greatly logic development and pushes forward the appearance of Hegel's dialectical logic. Based on the idea of "thought is unified with being", Hegel finally realizes the unification of epistemology, ontology and logic.
Keywords/Search Tags:transcendental logic, Critique of Pure Reason, metaphysics
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