Kant's Theory of Self-Consciousness

by C. Thomas Powell

From Descartes to Hume, philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries developed a dialectic of radically conflicting claims about the nature of the self. In the Paralogisms of The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant comes to terms with this dialectic and with the character of the experiencing self. In this study, Powell seeks to elucidate these difficult texts, showing that the structure of the Paralogisms provides an essential key to understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198244487
• ISBN13: 9780198244486
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"