![]() ![]() ![]() They then simply assume that these conclusions entail permanence, incorruptibility, and personality. Abstract The nature of Kant’s criticism of his pre-Critical ‘possibility proof’ for the existence of God, implicit in the account of the Transcendental Ideal in the Critique of Pure Reason, is still Expand 1 PDF Naturalism and Realism in Kants Ethics F. ![]() ![]() Instead, Kant thinks they argue for the conclusions of the soul's substantiality, simplicity, and identity. So how do they argue for these conclusions? They don't. Toward this end, he believes, they need to establish three things about the soul: its permanence, incorruptibility, and personality. The sole purpose for the rationalists' ventures in psychology, Kant repeatedly tells us, is to establish the immortality of the soul. In the first of the Dialectic's three chapters, the “Paralogisms of Reason,” Kant's focus is the rationalists' errors in the field of psychology. At the same time, he is empathetic toward the rationalists, underscoring that their errors are not obvious or even disingenuous, as the overly simplistic empiricists hold, but instead deep and inevitable, grounded in transcendental confusions that only Kant's transcendental researches can identify if not eradicate. Kant identifies many ways in which reason oversteps its bounds, and repeatedly charges the rationalists with such errors. After analyzing our cognitive powers of sensibility and understanding in the first Critique's Transcendental Aesthetic and Transcendental Analytic and arguing that these powers can together yield synthetic a priori knowledge, albeit knowledge limited to objects of appearance, Kant turns to an analysis of the power of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic. ![]()
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