On Kant 's Handling Of The Relationship Between Universal Causal Principle And Particular Causal Laws

The theory of causality is one of the central issues in Kant's Transcendental Analysis,which was explained in many aspects.After researching that,we can understand Kant's transcendental philosophy deeply,at the same time the learn of Kant's concept of causality was meaningful for the understanding of Hume's empiricism and the Epistemology in Western philosophy.In this paper i was also discussing one of causal issues in Kant's theory,which was the handling of the relationship between universal causal principle and particular causal laws for kant,First of all,after analyzing the Kant's reply to skepticism of Hume we can divide the concept of causality in Kant's mind into two aspects.The first is universal causal principle,which also can be presented”every change has a cause”.The second is particular causal laws that specific and empirical cause laws in nature.when dealing with the relationship between them,Kant first had a strict distinction,because the former has strict universality and necessity as the transcendental principle of understanding and the latter only has the regulations of the empirical laws in nature for its inductive source.Though Kant distinguish between universal causal principle and particular causal laws,the relationship between them is also close.The particular causal laws has grounded on universal causal principle in terms of somehow ways,because universal causal principle makes the exist and necessity of particular causal laws possible,so particular causal laws have mixed statues,which are inductive statue and necessary statue.But how the universal causal principle inject the1 necessity to particular causal laws?About this question i refactor the process that particular causal laws gets its necessity from the universal causal principle relying on metaphysical principles and transcendental categories.