Kant's philosophy - The limits of our cognition: The schematism and the principles of the intellect

The proper philosophy is metaphysics to Kant, and it in turn deals mainly with the three ideas of reason of God, freedom and immortality of the soul according to him. If any cognition was possible of these three objects, it could only happen by synthetic judgments a priori, that is judgments which are not based on experience, but which at the same time expand our knowledge. That is why the question of the Critique of Pure Reason was: How are such synthetic judgments a priori possible? And the result of his inquiry of the faculty of cognition Kant presents in the sometimes unclear and often overlooked passages on the schematism and the principles of the intellect: We have twelve categories of our thinking, pure intellectual concepts, by which we actually can make synthetic judgments a priori – but they are empty concepts for us, unless we relate them to sensuality through a temporal schema, and therefore the synthetic judgments a priori which are based on them, the principles of the intellect, allow us to make predictions about the make-up of the sensual world and all our viewings, perceptions and experiences in it, but they don’t allow us to take even a single step beyond it and into the supersensual world. Quote: 0:08 Concept and viewing cannot be connected just like that: 1:24 The schemata of the power of imagination: 7:29 The transcendental schemata: 16:47 Explanation of the specific schemata: 23:23 The categories are empty without the schemata: 39:02 The schematism restricts the categories to sensuality: 1:00:40 The principles of the intellect: 1:09:44 I) The mathematical connections: 1:12:10 - 1) Axiom of viewing: 1:15:09 - 2) Anticipation of perception: 1:20:34 - The commonality between the mathematical princples: 1:28:53 II) The dynamical princples: 1:39:41 - 3) Analogies of experience: 1:45:28 - 4) Postulates of empirical thought in general: 2:10:54 The result of the Critique of Pure Reason: 2:25:46 Thanks: 2:28:56 The table of categories according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/table-of-categories-according-to-Kant.jpg As difficult as especially the passage on the schematism is, for this topic there is no getting around reading the analytic of the principles in the Critique of Pure Reason itself, since in other works of Kant's the schemata and the principles of the intellect hardly get discussed: 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