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Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Principles of Transcendental Philosophy

Kant says self consciousness is unmediated by anything synthetically determinet that we would experience prior to it. He's basically saying that logical propositions are abstractions from particular determinate which suggest then the unmediated. By apprehending yourself, you create the principle of mediation and this ends up containing the principle of self-consciousness itself. But he also points out that even though self consciousnes is a single act, i just apprehend myself within that act,. There are innumerable, many tiny acts, logical components, that somehow you can look at individually.

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