Category (Kant)

Category (Kant)

In Kant's philosophy, a category is a pure concept of the understanding. A Kantian category is a characteristic of the appearance of any object in general, before it has been experienced. Kant wrote that "They are concepts of an object in general…." Kant also wrote that, "…pure cоncepts of the undеrstanding…apply to objects of intuition in general…." Such a category is not a classificatory division, as the word is commonly used. It is, instead, the condition of the possibility of objects in general, that is, objects as such, any and all objects, not specific objects in particular.

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Immanuel Kant
People
  • George Berkeley
  • René Descartes
  • Fichte
  • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
  • G.W.F. Hegel
  • David Hume
  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • African Spir
  • Johannes Tetens
Major works
  • Critique of Pure Reason
  • Prolegomena
  • What Is Enlightenment?
  • Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
  • Critique of Practical Reason
  • Critique of Judgement
  • Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason
  • Metaphysics of Morals
Kantianism and Kantian ethics
  • Transcendental idealism
  • Critical philosophy
  • Sapere aude
  • Schema
  • A priori and a posteriori
  • Analytic-synthetic distinction
  • Noumenon
  • Categories
  • Categorical imperative
  • Hypothetical imperative
  • "Kingdom of Ends"
  • Political philosophy
Related topics
  • German idealism
  • Schopenhauer's criticism
  • Neo-Kantianism

Read more about Category (Kant):  Meaning of "Category", The Table of Judgments, The Table of Categories, Schemata, Criticism

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