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Keller, Kant and the Demands of Self Consciousness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), esp. pp. 65–112. EPISTEMOLOGY OR METAPHYSICS? 26 At the same time, the unity of apperception itself is not exhaustible in its acts; to the contrary, its acts presuppose this unity which Kant calls the highest point of transcendental philosophy to which logic and theory of knowledge must be attached (CPR, B134n). In that sense, the unity of apperception is supposed to be objective, that is, differentiated from both the subjective (psychological in nature and accidental) “inner feeling” (CPR, B140) that everyone has.
10. 10 Burkhard Tuschling has convincingly argued that even Kant himself tended to sublate his own system of transcendental idealism with speculative idealism in his Opus Postumum. See B. F. Fulda, and J. , Architektonik und System in der Philosophie Kants (Hamburg: Meiner, 2001), pp. 129–170. 20 GERMAN IDEALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE II. Transcendentalism Versus Realism? The founder of German idealism begins his Critique of Pure Reason with the famous statement that “there can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience .
The above argument can be sharpened if one considers another dimension of Kant’s twofoldness, namely the twofoldness between his ontological skepticism and his epistemological forcefulness. He rejects the possibility of unconditioned knowledge of the object, the thing-in-itself. With caution and humility, he claims that “about the nature of supersensible objects, God, our own ability of freedom we can . . know nothing whatsoever” (WP, A110; TP2, 385). 7 This is, however, only half of Kant’s account.