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Immanuel Kant

1781 · 1790

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If space and time are forms of our experience, are they a veil over reality or the conditions that make knowledge possible?

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Story 1What is real, and what remains through change?

Kant — The experienced world and things in themselves

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If space and time are forms of our experience, are they a veil over reality or the conditions that make knowledge possible?

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  1. 1

    Kant treats space and time as forms of human sensible intuition rather than properties of things in themselves, calling spatiotemporal objects appearances.

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    • Kant's Transcendental Idealism

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: Introduction; §1 Appearances and Things in Themselves

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    Whether appearances and things in themselves are two kinds of object or two standpoints on one object remains a central unresolved interpretive dispute.

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    • Kant's Transcendental Idealism

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §4 The Dual Aspect View; §5 One Object or Two?

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Story 2Why does art matter, and what makes a work valuable?

Kant — Beauty asks for agreement without proof

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Why can “I like it” carry the expectation that you too ought to find it beautiful?

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    Kant's pure judgment of beauty rests on disinterested pleasure rather than desire to possess or use the object.

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    • Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2.1 The judgment of beauty: disinterestedness

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    A judgment of beauty claims subjective universality—rightful agreement from others—without relying on a determinate concept or proof.

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    • Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2.2 Universality and §2.4 Necessity

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Decisive moments in time

  1. 1781

    The first Critique redraws the limits of reality as it can be experienced.

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  2. 1790

    The third Critique joins personal pleasure to the possibility of shared judgment.

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