Kant's philosophy - Apperception: Self-consciousness as an act of thinking

Thinking, according to Kant, is an act of connecting. All material of our representations comes from sensuality, but it is thinking which combines it and gives it a form. The first connecting act of thinking is apperception, through which the various representations in our consciousness are thought as belonging to one and the same subject, as this very subject’s representations. Quote: 0:08 All thinking is connecting: 1:04 The faculty of thinking: 26:45 The intellect: 32:25 The I is the first act of thinking: 38:58 The error in the cartesian “I think, therefore I am”: 44:59 The “I think” must be able to accompany all my representations: 55:10 Empirical and pure apperception: 1:01:50 Homo noumenon and phaenomenon: 1:30:32 The I in itself is unknowable: 1:42:38 The transcendental unity of original apperception is the condition of the possibility of experience: 2:07:57 Thanks: 2:16:23 Overview of the thinking faculty according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/faculty-of-thinking-according-to-Kant.jpg Though this passage is amongs the most obscure and difficult ones in Kant's works, I have no better recommendation to give for reading, both when it comes to the connecting work of the intellect in general as well as to apperception, than the transcendental deduction of the pure oncepts of the intellect in the Critique of Pure Reason: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77U Thumbnail: www.hotpot.ai