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‘I do not cognize myself through being conscious of myself as thinking’: Self-knowledge and the irreducibility of self-objectification in Kant, in: Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49:4 (2019)

Article

Author(s): Khurana, Thomas
Year of publication: 2019

Abstract: The paper argues that Kant’s distinction between pure and empirical apperception cannot be interpreted as distinguishing two self-standing types of self-knowledge. For Kant, empirical and pure apperception need to co-operate to yield substantive self-knowledge. What makes Kant’s account interesting is his acknowledgment that there is a deep tension between the way I become conscious of myself as subject through pure apperception and the way I am given to myself as an object of inner sense. This tension remains problematic in the realm of theoretical cognition but can be put to work and made productive in terms of practical self-knowledge.

Keywords: Kant, apperception, inner sense, self-knowledge, self-objectification, practical knowledge, intellectual intuition

Research area: Research Area 1: The Normativity of Normative Orders: Origins, Vanishing Points, Performativitiy
Research project: Normativity and Subjectivity: First Nature – Second Nature – Mind
Subject(s): philosophy

Further information: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00455091.2019.1610325

https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2019.1610325