[lit-ideas] Re: does anyone have evidence for this "intellectual constructing?"
- From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:53:15 +0600
Adriano Palma wrote:
As matter of fact anyone who has any (textual? Conceptual?) basis to
claim that a noumenon is an “intellectual” construct is welcome to
provide such, because I fear there’s none available.
From the Critique of Pure Reason:
Thinking is the action of relating given intuitions to an object. If
the manner of this intuition is not given in any way, then the object
is merely transcendental, and the concept of the understanding has
none other than a transcendental use, namely the unity of thought of a
manifold in general. Now through a pure category, in which abstraction
is made from any condition of sensible intuition as the only one that
is possible for us, no object is determined, rather only the though of
an object in general is expressed in accordance with different modi.
(A247/B304)
The principles of pure understanding, whether they are a priori
constitutive or merely regulative, contain nothing but only the pure
schema, as it were, for possible experience; for this has its unity
only from the synthetic unity that the understanding originally and
from itself imparts to the synthesis of the imagination in relation to
apperception, and in relation to and agreement with which the
appearances, as data for possible cognition, must already stand a
priori. (A237/B296)
I call the world as it would be if it were in conformity with all
moral laws a moral world. This is conceived thus far merely as an
intelligible world, since abstraction is made therein from all
conditions and even from all hindrances to morality in it. Thus far it
is therefore a mere, yet practical idea, which really can and should
have its influence on the sensible world, in order to make it agree as
far as possible with this idea. The idea of a moral world thus has
objective reality, not as if it pertained to an object of an
intelligible intuition, but as pertaining to the sensible world,
although as an object of pure reason in its practical use ....
(A808/B836)
Sincerely,
Phil
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