An Examination of Immanuel Kant’s Notion of Transcendence
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2012
Authors
Owosho, S.A.
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Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Abstract
This paper critically examines Immanuel Kant’s notion of transcendence. It explores his meta-epistemic synthesis of rationalist and empiricist theories of cognition. It essentially investigates the transcendental powers of the human mind. It locates the power of the mind to regenerate and transform the world in transcendence. Kant’s theory of transcendence demonstrates the metaphysical powers of the mind to move and go beyond something into the desert region of nothingness. The paper however, reveals Kant’s reduction of metaphysics to anthropology as one of the errors of his theory. It further identifies Kant’s justification of racism as a fundamental pitfall of his theory of transcendence
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Transcendence , Mind , Nothingness , Metaphysics , Anthropology
Citation
Owosho S.A. (2012). An Examination of Immanuel Kant’s Notion of Transcendence, Journal of Philosophy and Development, 13 (1) & (2), ISSN: 177-7678, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, 57-68