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The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
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42 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2011
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Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge. It is not merely a condition that I myself require in knowing an object, but is a condition under which every intuition must stand in order to become an object for me".
Released:
Mar 16, 2011
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Podcast episode
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Idealisms and their refutations: Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible. by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason