for: Kant's transcendental - in history, quote, quote - Upanishad, quote - Ernst Cassirer, quote - Michel Henry, quote - Giovanni Gentile, quote Edmund Husserl

paraphrase

• The transcendental cannot be an objective thought but is the condition for any objective thought
• Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
  • Kant's transcendental is equivalent to the Braham
    • it is never seen but is a seer
    • it is never heard but is a hearer
    • it is never thought but is the thinker
    • it is never known but is the knower
    • it is the source of things and the source of knowledge
• Ernst Cassirer
  • Consciousness is a goal to which knowledge turns its back
• Michel Henry Consciousness cannot be shown, for it is the power to show.
• Giovanni Gentile
• Edmund Husserl
  • transcendental turn
    • the world is a sense for the transcendental ego
    • the transcendental ego is presupposed by the senses

for: nondual, nonduality, ground of existence, transcendental, Kant - transcendental, non-duality, non-dual, quote, quote - Michel Bitbol, quote - nonduality, quote - transcendental

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• What can you say about the transcendental?
• Can you speak of it?
• Can you use words to describe it?
• Can you characterize the condition of possibility of it?
• And Kant says no.
• This, namely, the transcendental, cannot be further analyzed or answered because it is of such condition that we are in need for all our answers and for all our thinking about objects.
• So, the transcendental itself cannot be an object of thought.

• Michel Bitbol explains Kant's definition of transcendental that makes sense to me for the first time!
• It is really quite similiar to the defintion of the nondual.