Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Alexander, Sarah Ann URN etd-08032007-105300 Title Resting in the Court of Reason: Kant's Resolution to the Antinomy of Pure Reason Degree Master of Arts Department Philosophy Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Melissa M. Merritt Committee Chair Jessica Berry Committee Member Sebastian Rand Committee Member Keywords
- Antinomy of Pure Reason
- Dogmatic Slumber
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- Critical Philosophy
- Illusion of Reason
Date of Defense 2007-04-13 Availability unrestricted Abstract Kant attributes the power to awaken one from dogmatic slumber to skepticism and to the antinomy of pure reason; in his accounts of his own awakening and the origin of the critical philosophy, he credits the antinomy and his memory of David Hume. This essay suggests that Kant’s primary aim in the first Critique was to find a resolution to the antinomy; an examination of this resolution shows Kant’s memory of Hume critical to Kant’s enterprise. Kant’s resolution to the antinomy exploits metaphors of war, jurisprudence, slumber, and historical development, as well as his Transcendental Deduction and explanation of transcendental illusion, to unravel the riddle of metaphysics and provide for both the possibility of objective knowledge and the possibility of freedom.Files
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