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      • The unity of consciousness is a phrase invented by Kant to describe the fact that the thoughts and perceptions of any given mind are bound together in a unity by being all contained in one consciousness— my consciousness.
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  2. Jul 26, 2004 · In this article, we will focus on Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) work on the mind and consciousness of self and related issues. Some commentators believe that Kant’s views on the mind are dependent on his idealism (he called it transcendental idealism). For the most part, that is not so.

  3. Mar 27, 2001 · In Kant (1781/7), the notion that consciousness is unified is central to his ‘transcendental deduction of the categories’ (see the entry on Kant’s view of the mind and consciousness of self for a fuller treatment of Kant). There Kant claims that in order to tie various objects of experience together into a single unified conscious ...

    • Andrew Brook, Paul Raymont
    • 2001
  4. This explication of empirical apperception has, however, posed two other questions: what is the objective unity of self-consciousness which he draws in distinction to the subjective unity, and can we cognise our self as we are in ourselves?

  5. Aug 17, 2020 · Kant is said to be the first to distinguish between consciousness of oneself as the subject of one’s experiences and consciousness of oneself as an object, which he calls transcendental and empirical apperception, respectively.

    • Janum Sethi
    • 2021
  6. Nov 29, 2017 · One of the central aspects of Kant’s transcendental theory of self-consciousness, which crucially separates his from previous theories, is the distinction between transcendental apperception and inner sense, the latter also called empirical apperception (A107).

    • Dennis Schulting
    • ds196901@gmail.com
    • 2017
  7. Even to be able to judge that some thing is some way, a creature must have and use the concept of a ‘self-conscious unified self.’ Kant also argued that the use of the I or self concept was possible only for creatures who were free in thought and action.

  8. This book explores the consequences of Kant's view of the self and his contributions to our own understanding of the character (and limits) of self-knowledge. Salient aspects of Kant's positive theory of the self as it is presented in the Transcendental Deduction are discussed.

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