The Alteration From Category Of Ontology To Transcendental Category

What we want to discuss in this thesis is the alteration from category of Aristotle to category of Kant, from which we could find an alteration from ontology to epistemology also from dogmatism to critical philosophy.Part One: Aristotle raised the problem of category at the first time in the history of western philosophy, entity and other categories were divided into two kinds according to the relationship between nominative phrase and objective phrase in grammar, the category beside entity made sense only describe entity. His category theory contact to language at the beginning because there was a special relationship between language and logic in ancient Greek. The more essential meaning of Aristotle's category was they made definition to existence, and entity was more priority of category due to that it made the most basic regulation of existence, and other category obtained meaning of exist just as the character of the basic regulation. Aristotle saw category as the tool we use to grasp the world, but this abstract instrument always made us felt powerless dealing with experiences. Aristotle didn't consider of the use of subject active when we grasping world but only thought highly of formal research of the phenomenon in outside world, so it contained pure category and experience category. The valuable of Aristotle's category theory was he began to search the unity between categories, and the biggest defect in this theory was the lack of connection between category and subjective consciousness or self-consciousness so each category seemed to be detachment from each other.Part Two: The most important contribute made by neoteric philosopher such as Descartes was to classify all things into ego consciousness, and what they exposed is that subject had to seem as a plain stage of our thought in whatever...