Absolute Totality, Causality, and Quantum: The Problem of Metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason
Kazuhiko YAMAMOTO
Citation :Kazuhiko YAMAMOTO, Absolute Totality, Causality, and Quantum: The Problem of Metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education 2017,4(4) : 72-81
Kant"s metaphysics which says that the absolute whole of magnitude has nothing to do with any possible experience presses him to think of a thing in itself, which is merely intelligible. The difficulty is related to the issue of the absolute totality of series of conditions in connection with the issue of the absolute magnitude of the series in the world of sense, which looms as the antinomy of pure reasons. Is it possible to solve this problem in such a way that we can comprehend transcendental aesthetics and the world-whole through empirical intuition and synthesis in accordance with experience or possible experience? Our "transcendental analytic," grounded on the law of nature, has shown that 1) the absolute unity of the thinking subject and the absolutely unconditioned in a series of given conditions signify nullity in space-time, i.e., quantum; and 2) a being of all beings signifies space-time itself, i.e., quantum, suggesting that the understanding can never accomplish a priori anything more than to anticipate an object of experience or of possible experience. Our transcendental analytic, which is grounded on Kant?s metaphysics in the Critique of Pure R