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A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason
This essay 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.
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.
Chapters:
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 to the Critique of
Kant
See also, on Kant: Ruminations, chapters
5.6 and
8.8.
