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Single Idea 19655

[catalogued under 18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 2. Categories of Understanding]

Full Idea

Kant maintains that we can only describe the a priori forms of knowledge (space and time, and the twelve categories), whereas Hegel insists that it is possible to deduce them.

Gist of Idea

Kant says we can describe the categories of thought, but Hegel claims to deduce them

Source

report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Quentin Meillassoux - After Finitude; the necessity of contingency 2

Book Reference

Meillassoux: 'After Finitude: the necessity of contingency', ed/tr. Brassier,R [Bloomsbury 2008], p.38


A Reaction

I've some sympathy with Kant here. There is a sort of introspective philosophical psychology which seems to be possible, independently from empirical psychology.

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