Merleau-Ponty’s Transcendental Theory of Perception

AbstractIn this paper we provide a mathematical model of Kant’s temporal continuum that yields formal correlates for Kant’s informal treatment of this concept in theCritique of Pure Reasonand in other works of his critical period. We show that the formal model satisfies Kant’s synthetic a priori principles for time (whose consistence is not obvious) and that it even illuminates what “faculties and functions” must be in place, as “conditions for the possibility of experience”, for time to satisfy such principles. We then present a mathematically precise account of Kant’s transcendental theory of time—the most precise account to date.Moreover, we show that the Kantian continuum which we obtain has some affinities with the Brouwerian continuum but that it also has “infinitesimal intervals” consisting of nilpotent infinitesimals; these allow us to capture Kant’s theory of rest and motion in theMetaphysical Foundations of Natural Science.While our focus is on Kant’s theory of time the material in this paper is more generally relevant for the problem of developing a rigorous theory of the phenomenological continuum, in the tradition of Whitehead, Russell, and Weyl among others.

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Eschatologie und Ethik bei Paul Tillich

International Yearbook for Tillich Research ◽

10.1515/tillich-2015-0103 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Harald Matern

Keyword(s):

Paul Tillich ◽

Critical Attitude ◽

Transcendental Theory ◽

Intellectual Environment

AbstractPaul Tillich’s eschatology is strongly linked to his ethics. In order to understand the theological and philosophical implications of this linkage it is necessary to consult his systematic main works from the 1920’s era. The intellectual environment of the Weimar era was used to apocalyptical descriptions of its present age - which within protestant theology was reflected in eschatological terms. Tillich’s contribution to the eschatological discourse of that time consisted in the development of an eschatology which (while preserving the critical attitude of dialectic theology) was designed to be a transcendental theory reflecting the conditions of the constitution of agency.

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Kant's Argument for the Principle of Intensive Magnitudes

Kantian Review ◽

10.1017/s1369415413000162 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 387-412 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Tim Jankowiak

Keyword(s):

External Objects ◽

Transcendental Theory ◽

Empirical Intuition ◽

The Way

AbstractIn the firstCritique,Kant attempts to prove what we can call the ‘principle of intensive magnitudes’, according to which every possible object of experience will possess a determinate ‘degree’ of reality. Curiously, Kant argues for this principle by inferring from a psychological premise about internal sensations (they have intensive magnitudes) to a metaphysical thesis about external objects (they also have intensive magnitudes). Most commentators dismiss the argument as a failure. In this article I give a reconstruction of Kant's argument that attempts to rehabilitate the argument back into his broader transcendental theory of experience. I argue that we can make sense of the argument's central inference by appeal to Kant's theory of empirical intuition and by an analysis of the way in which Kant thinks sensory matter constitutes our most basic representations of objects.

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Basic Strategies for Translating English Poetry into Chinese from the Prospective of Transcendental Theory

Modern Linguistics ◽

10.12677/ml.2021.95167 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 09 (05) ◽

pp. 1227-1235

Author(s):

天宇谢

Keyword(s):

English Poetry ◽

Transcendental Theory

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THE ORIGINS OF ADORNO's PSYCHO-SOCIAL DIALECTIC: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEO-KANTIANISM IN THE YOUNG ADORNO

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s147924431700049x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (02) ◽

pp. 501-529 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

BRANDON BLOCH

Keyword(s):

Social Relationship ◽

Social Processes ◽

Adequate Account ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Theodor Adorno ◽

Transcendental Theory ◽

Habilitation Thesis ◽

Early Text ◽

The Relationship ◽

Historical Origins

This essay examines one of the least-studied works in the philosophical corpus of Theodor Adorno, The Concept of the Unconscious in the Transcendental Theory of Mind. A retracted habilitation thesis composed in 1926–7, the text is often regarded as an exposition of the philosophical system of Adorno's teacher, Hans Cornelius, that bears little significance for Adorno's mature works. I argue that Concept of the Unconscious sheds significant light on both the historical origins and the conceptual underpinnings of the relationship between society and the psyche that Adorno would theorize over the course of his intellectual career. In this early text, Adorno articulated a dual critique of dominant neo-Kantian and vitalist understandings of the unconscious, turning to Freud for a more adequate account of the unconscious as a product of intertwining psychological and social processes. Adorno developed this dialectical understanding of the psycho-social relationship in numerous postwar writings on psychoanalysis.

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