Book contents
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- Introduction From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons
- Part I The Appearing Self
- Part II Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
- 3 The Form of Reflexivity and the Expression “I think”
- 4 The Conditions of Self-Reference
- Part III The Human Person and the Demands of Reason
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - The Form of Reflexivity and the Expression “I think”
from Part II - Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2020
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- Introduction From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons
- Part I The Appearing Self
- Part II Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
- 3 The Form of Reflexivity and the Expression “I think”
- 4 The Conditions of Self-Reference
- Part III The Human Person and the Demands of Reason
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3, “The Form of Reflexivity and the Expression of Self-Presence”, explores the role of transcendental apperception for inner experience according to the Transcendental Deduction (B) of the first Critique. By showing the insufficiencies of two alternative views defended in the literature, namely the psychological view and the logical view, the chapter argues that transcendental apperception is the capacity for reflexive consciousness in general. Its characteristic form, the general form of reflexivity, is the most general condition on any conscious representation and can be expressed by the phrase “I think”. The chapter concludes by arguing that the phrase “I think”, if in fact attached to a representation in thought, expresses self-reference to oneself as individual thinker, yet without determining oneself.
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- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-FormationThe Nature of Inner Experience, pp. 83 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020