Discuss The Heidegger’s Interpretation Of Kant’s Transcendental Imagination

Kant want to solve an important question in The critique of pure reason is "How are synthetical judgements a priori possible?". This is mean to find out how the intellectual category work the sensible objects. But there are only two source of human’ perceive ability in Kant’philosophy, sensible and intellectual. The two abilities are isolate from each other, so the will Into trouble for their combination. In the first version of transcendental deduction, the imagination as an independent ability, but in the second version of transcendental deduction, the synthesis of Imagination become a function of intellectual. In the Martin Heidergger’s opinon, the change of two version is Kant’s recoil, because follow the train of the first version we will reach cancel the distinguish of sensible and intellectual or emerge a third ability except sensible and intellectual. Heidergger prefer the deduction of the first version, and give an interpretation of the imagination based on his own philosophy.This paper use four steps to prove the imagination as the root of both sensible and intellectual.The first, all the synthesis is the result of imaginationThe question of integration of pure intellectual with pure sensible is from the apart of them. The pure sensible is appear to pure intellectual at all, at the same time, the pure intellectual is always in the face of pure sensible. All the synthesis is the result of imagination. There are three sections of the pure knowledge’s essential unification:’ first of all, manifold of the pure sensible; second is the synthesis of Imagination to the manifold; but there still need the intellectual to offer unity." All the three parts, the pure synthesis of Imagination is in the middle. But there is not sample in the middle of the first ability and the third ability. On the contrary, this midpoint is a structural midpoint.The second, discuss the two ways in the transcendental deductionThe unite of idea and time were appear in the pure synthesis. The task was called "transcendental deduction of the categories". We use two ways to uncover the structure of the pure synthesisFirst road, to show the essence of the pure intellectual, so that we can see it’s rely on the time. This way was called "from top to bottom ", that is from intellectual down the sensible.(A116-A120)Another road is "from bottom to top ", that is from sensible up to the intellectual.The two ways reveal "the connect of the two terminals is inevitable". Once more, emphasize that the essential thing is not a linear connect, but a structural connect.The third, transcendental imagination is the root of the two branches.The two branches depend on transcendental imagination in structure, on account of, the transcendental imagination make that possible."So, we have a pure imagination,that is a basic ability of the human’s soul."The fourth, from the triple synthesis we can reach a conclusion that transcendental imagination is the original timeThe synthesis of the apprehension have a character, that is the directly receive of the current array. This synthesis is a faculty of forming images actually. The reproduce synthesis of the imagination is connect with past, because that make the vision of go back possible. The synthesis of the concepts is a fore cognitive synthesis. Apprehension and reproduce both require a fore identify, which connect with’future’essentially. The identify setting a unity for the manifold of experience in advance. The triple elements of the time make up the unity of time itself, so the unity of the triple synthesis root in the unity of time. If the cognition is possible, the three style of synthesis must in a whole structure, and the whole is time itself.