http://darwiniana.com/2009/09/20/essentialism-in-the-self/ History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:29:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://darwiniana.com/2009/09/20/essentialism-in-the-self/comment-page-1/#comment-340412 nemo Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:46:27 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=32873#comment-340412 Mr. Arnhardt, you are a qualified philosopher and academic, and should be familiar with the critiques of Kant. Your manner of expressing surprise here is a bit strange. I think that this issue, as you fear, is subject to seeming contradictions, but so are all other positions. Kant's approach (which never explicitly declares the self beyond space and time!) is perhaps the only one known that can make sense of a confusing set of dillemmas about self, materialism, and supernaturalism. Mr. Arnhardt, you are a qualified philosopher and academic, and should be familiar with the critiques of Kant.
Your manner of expressing surprise here is a bit strange.
I think that this issue, as you fear, is subject to seeming contradictions, but so are all other positions.
Kant’s approach (which never explicitly declares the self beyond space and time!) is perhaps the only one known that can make sense of a confusing set of dillemmas about self, materialism, and supernaturalism.

]]> http://darwiniana.com/2009/09/20/essentialism-in-the-self/comment-page-1/#comment-340411 nemo Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:16:35 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=32873#comment-340411 To be more accurate, there is a phenomenal and a noumenal aspect of the self. My statement is a variant of Kantian thinking: the categories of perception involve those of space and time, which are therefore in part constructions of the mind. Therefore, if that is the case, the 'self' ought to be in some fashion, in part, as to its noumenal aspect, over and above space and time. The exact situation is beyond knowledge To be more accurate, there is a phenomenal and a noumenal aspect of the self.
My statement is a variant of Kantian thinking: the categories of perception involve those of space and time, which are therefore in part constructions of the mind. Therefore, if that is the case, the ‘self’ ought to be in some fashion, in part, as to its noumenal aspect, over and above space and time. The exact situation is beyond knowledge

]]>