He Doctrine Of Time Of Kant’s Critique Of Pure Reason

The doctrine of time is an important part of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, and time is an important clue throughout the whole Critique of Pure Reason. This thesis focuses on the time of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In the section of the transcendental aesthetic of Critique of Pure Reason, Kant hold the thought that the time is a priori form of intuition, a priori necessary condition of experience, which as a pure intuition for any empirical representation has without exception necessity, here Kant gives unity to time(for any empirical representation) but in the section of transcendental logic, Kant changed his opinions which expressed in the section of transcendental aesthetic, he argued that the time is formed during the process of transcendental imagination synthetic uniting the pure manifold of space and time with the assistance of the synthetic unit of understanding. Thus causes a contradiction about the source of the time, which is the time is a priori or given to us? according to the author, this conflict does not exist. Judging by the way of Kant’s discussion, he is using suspension method, when he investigates the perceptual he suspends the understanding, which would separate the connection of the time and the understanding, nonetheless, this is necessary for the discussion, which is the possibility of the time as a priori form of intuition? This issue reveals the connections of the time with the understanding and the transcendental imagination that the time is formed by the transcendental imagination synthetic’s unite of the pure manifold of space and time. Without the synthetic unity of understanding, the time is impossible, In addition, this thesis also investigates the important meaning and effects and the contradiction of Kant’s theory time.