I think and self-consciousness in Kant
"the manifold of representations can be given in intuition, which is purely sensible, that is nothing but receptivity."
"Nothing can represented as joint object, without first having carried out at the junction.
"the conjunction is the only one not to be given by the objects being producible soltantno by the subject, as an act of spontaneity."
The conjunction , Kant makes it clear, has nothing to do with the unit category. The unit is a category that belongs to the representation and apply to the subject. But how can we be aware of our representations (without being aware we can not know )? Thanks to their unification by the ego I think.
The "I think his intellect is that faculty which unifies the multiple representations empirical (obtained through the categories), and is the presupposition of all knowledge. This I think is a representative function of the intellect from different categories, because it acts on the representations themselves, unifying their own. To unify, however, there must be a conscious entity, capable of representing himself in the "I think, the conscience must be aware of the unifying ego I think (ie intellect) must be self-conscious, otherwise can not know. The knower as well as being machine acquaintance (thanks to its junction spontaneous ego I think), should also be aware of the knowledge, that is to be self-consciousness. Without self-consciousness can not be the work of the intellect, I think that is the ego, and there can be no knowledge. It 's like saying that I think is the machine and the existence of a self-consciousness is the fuel. And 'the machine that works, but it always assumes a self-consciousness. Self-consciousness is a cognitive tool, is something that goes to the dilation of universal knowledge of the intellect: it is the individual knower, rather than in idealistic becomes the absolute Subject fell in history.
Kant is expressed even more clearly when he says:
"For the many representations that are given some insight, they can not ALL TOGETHER to be My representations, if not all belong together to a single self-consciousness. "
So I think the activity of the ego assumes the subject aware of itself, otherwise it remains an empirical subject which can not know.
" In fact, the empirical consciousness, which accompanies different representations, is dispersed in itself and without reference to the identity of the subject. "
The empirical consciousness can not know why is the LINK, that is the summary of representations effettutata from I think.
much simpler: it knows through intuition (space and time) + representation (categories). The multiple representations is unified by the intellect, through I think. The intellect can only do this work because it requires a knowing subject (or self-conscious). This I think is an object that knows phenomena, self-awareness is a person who knows you know. Self-consciousness knows (= is in itself) I think the, I think the phenomena is in itself (intuitive and categorized) uniting to make them his own, and not someone else. But this action requires the existence of them their own self-consciousness.
the "" are kant.
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