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Critique of Pure Reason

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Immanuel Kant
(1781)

 

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Dermot Moran
"Kant distinguishes between empirical and transcendental idealism.  Empirical idealism is the doctrine which "denies the existence of external objects of the senses" (A368), and transcendental idealism holds that all appearances are representations and not things in themselves.  Transcendental idealism is an empirical realism (A371).  Empirical idealists on the other hand are transcendental realists who interpret appearances as things in themselves (A369, A372).  Dogmatic idealism is the rejection of matter (A377) and is applied to Berkeley at B274 (as opposed to Descartes's 'problematic idealism').  Transcendental realism treats space and time as things in themselves and inevitably leads to Berkeley's idealism." (Idealism in Medieval Theology, p. 57)

 

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