From Anitnomies To Transcendental Freedom

Freedom is the starting point and the ultimate aim of Kant’sphilosophy. His three “critical” and his major works were all around it.As for Kant’s discourse on freedom, people often think it is through thediscussion of the moral basis in the “Critique of Practical Reason”. But infact Kant limited the boundaries of knowledge through the foundation ofknowledge, so as to open up the field for free in Kant’s “Critique of PureReason”. This paper discussed Kant raised a priori concept of freedomwith the help of the third group of antinomy in Kant’s “Critique of PureReason” and complete the proof of the possibility of transcendentalfreedom through the solution of a conflict proposition. Pointed out thatfreedom is in fact out of the Pure Reason, which gives the freedomunquestionable basis.This paper consists of three parts: The first part firstly summarizedhow antinomies generated and pointed out the antinomies arises out ofthe inevitable pursuit of rationality on the absolute uncondition and thenput forward the concept of Transcendental Freedom through the analysisof the proof and annotation of the third group of antinomies.The second part is the core of this paper. It proved the possibility ofthe existence of the transcendental freedom by addressing the third set of antinomies. This part also divided into two parts: firstly, to resolve thisconflict proposition. It is by pointing out the subject and the antithesismay be correct, in order to explain Transcendental Freedom is likely toexist in the area of thing-in-itself. Secondly, it proved TranscendentalFreedom as the freedom of causality and natural causality can coexist.This part mainly explained rationality has the character of reason, pointsout that the rationality is free because of its physical character of freedomthrough the classification of two kinds of character of rationality. As thedouble existence, people can take free and natural for united in the sameaction.The third part, summed up the meaning of TranscendentalFreedom and explained the important role of Transcendental Freedom inKant’s theory of freedom.