Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure ReasonTwo currents of thought dominated Western philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. Despite the gradual dissemination of British ideas on the Continent in the first decades of the eighteenth century, these fundamentally disparate philosophical outlooks seemed to be wholly irreconcilable. However, the publication of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 presented an entirely new method of philosophical reasoning that promised to combine the virtues of Rationalism with the scientific rigour of Empiricism. |
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... idealist , while the Prolegomena passages apply expressly to Berkeley . But both Berkeleyan and Cartesian idealism ' were to have been held off ' by transcendental , or ' critical ' ideal- ism as a whole ( Kant 2002 : 88 ; Prolegomena 4 ...
Disciplining Pure Reason Scott Stapleford. But this strategy will be ineffectual against empirical idealists of either stripe , Cartesian or Berkeleyan . Allison thinks that its inadequacy as a line to push against the Cartesian idealist ...
... idealist . The Fourth Paralogism advanced an essentially Berkeleyan argument that the existence of objects needn't be inferred since we do not have to go outside the con- tents of our own minds to reach them . This is the first sense of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Transcendental Refutation of Empirical Idealism | 62 |
The Transcendental as a Level of Discourse | 118 |
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