I'll admit, right off the bat, that I do not fully understand what Kant is doing in Deduction (A). This post is essentially an attempt to make sense of this term "Unity of Self-consciousness." I'm also going to attempt the whole numbered-proposition thing. Failure is likely.
1. Our sensibility intuits appearances of objects, which are the only things we can know.
2. In order for this intuition to become knowledge, it must also be grasped by the understanding as a concept.
3. In order for this concept to refer to the object intuited, the concept and the intuition must be unified a priori.
4. This a priori unity is a trascendental condition for the possibility of experience, and is the "Unity of Self-Consciousness," which Kant entitles transcendental apperception.
I don't even want to post this. This is probably wrong. Please, for the love of Kant, help me understand this.
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Well, I think you might be right-ish, here.
ReplyDeleteHow do concepts relate to objects? is the question of the deduction. By virtue of the TUA as a ground for a priori concepts and forms seems to be the answer.
I am personally confused by 2. i dont know if this is as productive in clarifying as you would hope, but i dont see why the objects refering to concepts needs to be a priori. isn't the point of reference that it has to be in hindsight?
ReplyDeletei meant to say 3.
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