Kant's Graph Theory

In the philosophical thinking of Kant , the schema is "the pure comprehension " of understanding categories to time . With the help of time , understanding has been used indirectly into sensible manifold , and sensible objects were set out . So the schema not only is the combination of understanding and sensibility , but also has ontological meanning . Scholars of our country have always been studying Kant's Schematism only from the point of his epistemology , so they couldn't understand the standing and effect of Schematism in Kant's entire philosophical system , and would inevitablely misunderstand lots of philosophical thoughts of him .This thesis tries to disclose the ontological meanning of Schematism , through a detailed discuss of it ; and points that because Kant rigorously distinguished thing-in-itself and phenomenon , in the limit of phenomenon , object has been the representation of transcendent subject, and then the unity of subject and object has been founded . From the beginning of epistemology , Schematism has finally been led to Kant's practical subject , which answered the problem of how the scientific ontology could be . So Schematism has a very important place in Kant's philosophical system .This thesis includs three parts :The first part analyses some problems in empiricism and rationalism , and points that by the rebuilding of the ontology of empiricism and rationalism , Kant resoved the difficult problem of epistemology in empiricism and rationalism , and raised his Schematism .The second part discusses Kant's Schematism in a more detailed way . This part analyses such problems as the effect of schema in Kant's epistemology , the distinction of schema and image , and the schematizement of categories , etc . From Kant's epistemology , it...