Annotation And Commentary On Kant's Theory Of Space-Time

Kant's philosophy is the connecting link in the western history of philosophy. Some scholars regard Kant as the master who opened the door of modern philosophy. Taking such hypothesis of object in conformity to knowledge as prime guiding ideology, Kant critically reviewed the whole ability to cognition. In order to present a reasonable explanation to science and knowledge, Kant critically probed the human understanding and maintained science and metaphysics in the new point of view so that those fields would own reasonable foundation and establish effective law respectively. By this way, human would make clearer understanding towards the world and self and set up better area for moral. Some points in Kant's philosophy such as the division between phenomenon and noumenon,transcendental intuitionistic form become the theory cause to criticize or develop Kant's philosophy: from definition of human cognition to seek possibility of inevitability in knowledge, or prevailing the researching methods of science of phenomenon caused by developing the difference between phenomenon and noumenon,or placing a premium on new thoughts way for modern philosophy from his abound connotation in Transdental philosophy.Firstly, this article surveys theory origin between Kant's philosophy and theory of space-time in modern epistemology according to study the theory of space-time in ancient period during which there are two important philosophers, Aristotle and Newton, among which lists the traditional and theory source Kant's adaptation.Secondly, since neoteric philosophy realized the cognitive turning, these basic issues such as the origin,scope,mechanism,determination,faith of knowledge fluctuated to some extent. Coming into the field of cognition and taking the transdental concept,pure reason and intuitionistic form as cognitive form, Kant expressed his desire of establishing doubtless science and metaphysics and setting up the noumenon world worked by practical reason and phenomenon world worked by academic reason. Kant divides phenomenon and noumenon to make cognition stay in the field of phenomenon and faith in the field of ontology. In the traditional western philosophy, there has been a logical tendency on the cognitive study, that logical relation between the sensibility and sense of the cognitive process,the induction and syllogistic is the main concerning. From the view of psychological experience of human, Kant exerts Locker's thought of"concept endowed by nature"to study cognitive process, unscrambling the cognitive way from subject and psychological consciousness of subject makes Kant the modern philosopher.Thirdly, on the basis of general survey about Kant's philosophy, my paper focuses on the point of idealized time to understand the theory that Kant's philosophy arouses the humanization tendency and establishing human being as the final goal of philosophy. Kant's attempting to limit human cognitive ability and scope because of the experience limitation on cognitive ability, Kant draws a conclusion that human only understand the phenomenon or experience of objects and cant get the knowledge of the transendtal being. By this way, after cutting the relation between knowledge and objects, we only acquire the rule about subjective understanding and phenomenon and cannot reach the touch of the rule of objective world. Kant's philosophy boosts the subjective conscious activity in the knowledge on the basic of limiting the scope of human cognitive ability. Kant's Schematism opens a new field that modern philosophy is necessary to seek into deeply. Kant specifically solves the transition between sensibility and sense and offers a media between the two, Schematism makes out there is a transition process between sensibility and sense and the relation of generalization and separation. Kant's theory fills up the research blank and promotes the development of human cognition. Time is not the concept amplified and generalized from any experience activities. By contraries, time is the precondition of all experience activities. By the transdental intuitionistic forms of space and time, the phenomenon is give to human. In the theory of Space-Time and Schematism, Kant further idealizes time so as to explain that the go-aheadism of human cognition from the beginning of understanding. Space-time as the form of sensory organ is conformed in the position and role of human cognition. Kant has a further discussion on the relation those space-time bridges between sensibility and sense.Fourthly, the cognitive and experience quality of Kant's philosophy meet the need of modern philosophy, some fields of philosophy composed by some cognitive and experience factors have connections with Kant's philosophy in different degrees. Heidegger just takes that point of the transcendental object that is beyond the scope of experience in Kant's philosophy to open another field establishing the new and basic ontology by Phenomenon. Moreover, Heidegger considers the foundation of the question sough by Kant that how the transdental general sense could be is just the ontology. In this sense, Heidegger comes up ontology guiding by epistemology issued by Kant himself.All in all, Kant's philosophy is the turning point of western philosophy. Just because of continuous deepening of human's cognition and subjective position, philosophy not only realizes the whole humanism but also arise the different responding to Kant's thought in modern philosophy.