ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT OF BODY INTO THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

Jacinto Rivera De Rosales

doi:10.36311/2318-0501.2017.v5n1.16.p231

Abstract

The body of the subject should be considered as a transcendental element for all objective cognition and must play an essential role in the third Analogy of experience. For that it is necessary to understand that both the outer and inner appearances have their own specific spatiality and temporality. The starting point is the Kantian reflections in his “Refutation of Idealism” and its consequences.

Highlights

In the chapter on the schematism (A 137/B 176 ff.) we find only the application of the categories to the time - the space is here completely missing
I will support all these statements, strange as they may appear for the usual elucidation of Kantian doctrine, with regard to the “Refutation” and its consequences, but implementing a thinking interpretation of the third Analogy of the experience, in order to clarify the transcendental position of our body in the theoretical field
It is only the third Analogy that establishes accurately and objectively that which persists and which changes, that which occurs simultaneously, comes earlier or later in the outer and in the inner appearances because it is only really there determined the objective distinction and connection between both senses, which belong to one experience, and so the objective position of my existence in the space and time of the outer appearances, as it was required in the “Refutation”

Summary

The attempt

According to the CPR our body plays no role in the objective cognition of the world[2]. I would like to try to offer proof that, if we think according to the doctrine and the transcendental method of the CPR consistently and with a focused interpretation, i.e., if we think this issue through from this point of view, we can realize that the synthetic identification of the transcendental subject with a body is a necessary element for the objective cognition of the world in the theoretical field. This element was not taken into account in the reflection of the Critique, it remains not thought in the thought. It is to be rescued for the possibility and understanding of the third Analogy of experience

The fundamental idea of “Refutation of Idealism”

The new role of space

Two senses and two connected temporalities

The body as the spatiality of the subject