A SHORT CRITIQUE OF
KANT’S UNREASON
Avi
Sion, Ph. D.
First published, 2008-9.
Abstract
A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason is a brief critical
analysis of some of the salient epistemological and ontological ideas and
theses in Immanuel Kant’s famous Critique
of Pure Reason.
It shows that Kant was in no position to criticize reason,
because he neither sufficiently understood its workings nor had the logical
tools needed for the task.
Kant’s transcendental reality, his analytic-synthetic
dichotomy, his views on experience and concept formation, and on the forms of
sensibility (space and time) and understanding (his twelve categories), are
here all subjected to rigorous logical evaluation and found deeply flawed – and
more coherent theories are proposed in their stead.
This essay is drawn from the author’s earlier book Logical and Spiritual Reflections.
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Contents
1. Kant’s
transcendental reality
2. The
analytic-synthetic dichotomy
3. Theory of
knowledge
4. Experience,
space and time
5. Kant’s
“categories”
6. Ratiocinations
7. How numbers
arise
8. Geometrical
logic
Addenda
Supplements
References
Immanuel Kant (Germany,
1724-1804).
Further description
My writing the present essay focusing on some of Kant’s
illogical views should not of course be construed as a rejection of everything
he says. I regard many of his contributions as very interesting and instructive.
Moreover, I am well aware that a philosophical system as broad and complex as
Kant’s cannot be treated fairly in a few pages, particularly without claim to
expertise in Kant’s philosophy. All I hope to do here is roughly sketch some of
his basic ideas, and give my logical comments in relation to them. Many of
these comments are, I think, original, and that is why I feel some urgency in
writing them down. Of course, it would be nice if one day I have the courage to
take up the daunting task of writing a large and detailed book on Kant’s
thought, but in the meantime this brief exposé will have to do.
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