Concept
Transcendental idealism
Overview
epistemology, proposed by Kant, in which space and time are merely formal features of how we perceive objects, not things in themselves that exist independently of us
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The case is the same with representations in time. But time and space, with all phenomena therein, are not in themselves things. They are nothing but representations and cannot exist out of and apart from the mind.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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If in the disclosures which Kant's wonderful acumen gave to the world there is anything true beyond the shadow of a doubt, this is to be found in the Transcendental Aesthetics, that is to say, in his doctrine of the ideality of Space and Time. On such solid foundations is the structure built that no one has been able to raise even an apparent objection.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
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When I speak of objects in time and in space, it is not of things in themselves, of which I know nothing, but of things in appearance, that is, of experience, as the particular way of cognising objects which is afforded to man. I must not say of what I think in time or in space, that in itself, and independent of these my thoughts, it exists in space and in time; for in that case I should contradict myself; because…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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Philosophers who discussed Transcendental idealism
- Bernard Lonergan
- Heinrich Rickert
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Gottlob Frege
- Paul Guyer
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- Philipp Mainländer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Edmund Husserl
- Joseph Maréchal
- Roman Ingarden
- Nick Land
- Julius Bahnsen
- Henry E. Allison
- Jakob Sigismund Beck
- Nikolai Fyodorov (philosopher)
- Petre P. Negulescu
- Ferdinand Fellmann
- Henry Veatch
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Noumenon
- Cognition
- Yale University Press
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophical realism
- The World as Will and Representation
- Philosophy
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- John Searle
- Intuition
- Idealism
- Analytic philosophy
- German philosophy
- Philosophical theory
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Thomas Nagel
- Mind
- Monadology
- Sense
- P. F. Strawson
- Perception
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