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The understanding of the transcendental Idealism and empirical Realism in Kant's Knowledge Theory

Eusun Heo 1

1동국대학교

ABSTRACT

Kant asserts that human knowledge consists of his own intuition. It is so called the Copernican revolution. But Kant’s theory has a difficult problem like Descartes or Berkeley has. It is an existence of things outside me and my self-consciousness. So Kant proves that they really exist as far as they are experiential appearance in “Widerspruch des Idealismus”, in his own Kritik der reinen Vernunft . A ‘I’, subject, self-consciousness is a experiential condition through the time for Kant. It works as cognitive subject and objective representation at the same time. It is possible only that internal sense has an external sense as a premise. A self-consciousness can be in that condition, time and space. It always accompanies an existing particular body in the real(sensible) world. Just by a subject’s work, an appearance and a knowledge are possible. Therefore Kant’ theory is transcendental Idealism and experiential Realism at the same time. In the theory, my own cognition becomes the world’s.

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