The Antinomies: Some Preliminary Considerations

The conflict of reason with itself has roots in reason’s demand for an absolute totality of conditions for any conditioned. This is derived from the principle of sufficient reason that every true proposition must have a ground or reason. Examples can be found in space and time.

The Nature of Transcendental Realism

In the Fourth Paralogism of the first version of Critique, Kant argus that transcendental realism results in empirical idealism since space and time are regarded as properties of things in themselves, we are forced to deny that mind has immediate experience of such objects.

The aim of the book is to both interpret and defend Kant’s transcendental idealism from his Critique of Pure Reason.

Perhaps the most intriguing single comment made about transcendental idealism is the famous remark of Kant’s contemporary Jacobi that, year after year, he had been forced in confusion to recommence the Critique because he had found himself unable to enter into the system of Kantian philosophy without the presupposition of the thing in itself, and yet, with that presupposition, unable to remain within it.

Beyond the land of truth