Kant’s ‘Five Ways’

Transcendental Idealism in Context

Bibliographic Data

ID9687090
AuthorsMurray Miles (0000-0002-8473-6191, Brock University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume57
Issue1
Pages137-161
Publication date2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s001221731700107x
OpenAlexW2783180440
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

In 1772, Kant outlined the new problem of his critical period in terms of four possible “ways” of understanding the agreement of knowledge with its object. This study expands Kant’s terse descriptions of these ways, examining why he rejected them. Apart from clarifying the historical context in which Kant saw his own achievement (the Fifth Way), the chief benefits of exploring the historical background of Way Two, in particular, are that it (1) explains the puzzling intuitus originarius/intellectus archetypus dichotomy, and (2) casts doubt on the received idea that Kant broke with the traditional theocentric model of cognition

Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Idealism · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Transcendental idealism · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · History · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science

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