The Doctrine Of Kant’s Things In Themselves

The partition of appearances and things in themselves is the foundation of the system of Kant’s transcendental philosophy, according to this premise, Kant establishes the transcendental epistemology and the transcendental philosophy of practice. The epistemology concentrates on the possibility of the truthful knowledge of objects, and the practical philosophy focus on the practical laws which the pure reason conceives based on the free will, that is, the moral laws. Kant’s transcendental philosophy resolves the necessity of the truth and the possibility of the freedom in the particular ways, and the setting of things in themselves is the key to answer the two questions. This thesis’s main task is to elaborate the deride and the basic significances of the things in themselves based on the discussion of the truth and the freedom, in addition, to observe the transcendental philosophy with a holistic view which proceeding by the things in themselves. The things in themselves are presented on the two subjects, that is, the epistemology and the practical philosophy. Within the epistemology, the things in themselves could be seemed as a limit to the knowledge because of its un-knowability, however, from the micro level, the things in themselves correlate to some concepts which are closely connects to the knowledge, such as the appearances, phanomena, noumena, transcendental object, thus a elaboration is needed; within the practical philosophy, the transcendental concept of freedom could be treated as the things in themselves because of its un-knowability, yet, this concept becomes the highest basic by which the pure reason defining the will, thus formulate the highest principles and laws of practical reason, that is, the moral laws. From a macro level, the transcendental concept of freedom connects the intellectual reason and the practical reason, therefore becomes the "capstone" of the system of pure reason.