Awareness and Cognition in Kant's Philosophy مقاله

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The discussion of awareness in Kant is presented within an interconnected network involving object and objectivity, necessity, transcendental apperception, unity of consciousness, concept, synthesis, judgment, and the nature of the soul and its types. In explaining the preconditions for the possibility of cognition, Kant primarily emphasizes the unity of consciousness as the unifying factor for representations and the formation of judgment and knowledge; however, in a second sense, he introduces the term "transcendental apperception" with even greater emphasis, which is itself an interpretation and account of the unity of consciousness. Consequently, cognition in Kant's philosophy consists of the non-arbitrary (rule-governed) synthesis of representations that possesses necessity and objectivity, and under the factor of awareness, takes on a stable unity of the "self" and, in one sense, is constructed based on the unity of consciousness (902. Apperception and Cognition One of the modifications that Kant made in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason is centering the concept of transcendental apperception as an expression of the unity of consciousness and, consequently, as a prior condition of identification3. ' (231 B) Transcendental and Empirical Apperception Unity and consciousness, as we have seen, were the cause and creator of the concept of a thing as the locus of the necessary synthesis of multiplicities, and such a matter could not result from sensory experience. The topic of the unity of consciousness and apperception is, on one hand, an expression of the transcendental condition of knowledge and cognition, and on the other hand, it is related to the nature and essence of the "self" and the "soul".