Chapter 3. Transcendental Apperception and Consciousness in Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20067367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Schulting (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 89-113 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Reading Kant's Lectures (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110345339-010 |
| OpenAlex | W1830485976 |
| ISBN | 9783110345339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
I shall focus chiefly on the metaphysics lectures contemporaneous with Kant’s Critical phase, namely the Mrongovius, Vigilantius, and von Schon lecture notes.1 One sees in those lectures, more clearly than in the Herder and 1770s Politz lectures, that Kant takes Baumgarten just as a jumping-off point for presenting his own views. Often, and especially in the introductory parts, one has the impression that whole passages of the Critique of Pure Reason are paraphrased in the lectures alongside clarifications which provide us with helpful additional insight into central ideas of the Critical philosophy. Of course, topics that are less developed in the Critique itself, such as the specific ontological categories and their definition, are also broached in the later parts of the lectures. However, there appear to remain some carry-overs from the pre-Critical lectures (especially the 1770 Politz metaphysics). I shall look at one particular, though crucial, element – namely the relation between (transcendental) apperception and the notion of ‘consciousness’ – and explore to what extent, and in which contexts, apperception and consciousness are featured in the lectures and what changes (or not) between the pre-Critical and Critical phases of Kant’s lecturing activity. In Section 1, the theme of apperception and consciousness and their relation is introduced. I also address some terminological issues. In Section 2, I look briefly at the Leibnizian and Wolffian background of Kant’s theory of apperception, and the usage and occurrence of the term ‘consciousness’ both in the lecture notes and in Kant’s pre-Critical published work. I also discuss, again very briefly, aspects of the theory of obscure representations, in order to clarify Kant’s
Apperception · Consciousness · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Psychoanalysis · Transcendental idealism · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |