Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edition>The few passages that remained obscure to me, after due efforts of thought, (as the chapter on original apperception,) and the apparent contradictions which occur, I soon found were hints and insinuations referring to ideas, which Kant either did not think it prudent to avow, or which he considered as consistently left behind in a pure analysis, not of human nature in toto, but of the speculative intellect alone. He had been in imminent danger of persecution during the reign of the late king of Prussia, that strange compound of lawless debauchery and priest-ridden superstition: and it is probable that he had little inclination, in his old age, to act over again the fortunes, and hair-breadth escapes of Wolf. The expulsion of the first among Kant’s disciples, who attempted to complete his system, from the University of Jena, with the confiscation and prohibition of the obnoxious work by the joint efforts of the courts of Saxony and Hanover, supplied experimental proof, that the venerable old man’s caution was not groundless. In spite therefore of his own declarations, I could never believe, that it was possible for him to have meant no more by his Noumenon, or Thing in itself, than his mere words express; or that in his own conception he confined the whole plastic power to the forms of the intellect, leaving for the external cause, for the materiale of our sensations, a matter without form, which is doubtless inconceivable. I entertained doubts likewise, whether, in his own mind, he even laid all the stress, which he appears to do, on the moral postulates.
Kant on esoteric kantianism part 1:>when we compare the thoughts that an author expresses about a subject, in ordinary speech as well as in writing, it is not at all unusual to find that we understand him even better than he understood himself, since he may not have determined his concept sufficiently and hence sometimes spoke, or even thought, contrary to his own intention
>>25194011are the original guy who used to make threads?
>>25194076maybe
Kant on esoteric kantianism part 2:>A philosophical system cannot come forward armed at all points like a mathematical treatise, and hence it may be quite possible to take objection to particular passages, while the organic structure of the system, considered as a unity, has no danger to apprehend. But few possess the ability, and still fewer the inclination, to take a comprehensive view of a new system. By confining the view to particular passages, taking these out of their connection and comparing them with one another, it is easy to pick out apparent contradictions, especially in a work written with any freedom of style. These contradictions place the work in an unfavourable light in the eyes of those who rely on the judgement of others, but are easily reconciled by those who have mastered the idea of the whole.
>[The Science of Knowledge] constructs the entire common consciousness of all rational beings absolutely a priori, in its fundamental characteristics, precisely as geometry constructs absolutely a priori the universal modes of limiting space on the part of all rational beings.-Fichte, Sun-Clear Statement, Third Conversation
Kant's negation of intellectual intuition and noumena in the positive sense, provided us with the idea which can serve as a template for practical reason to direct human action to actualize it. The proof of intellectual intuition is in the actual bringing of it about.
>>25195078Herr Fichte says:>If we succeed in this, we shall have proven by the realization of the science of knowledge that it is possible, and that there is a system of human knowledge, whereof it is the representation. If we do not succeed in this, there either is no such system or we have merely failed in discovering it, and must leave the discovery to more fortunate successors. To maintain that there is no such system merely because we have failed to discover it would be an assumption, the refutation whereof is beneath the dignity of earnest investigation.-Fichte, Concerning the Conception of the Science of Knowledge Generally, Section 2
One of the most important concept of esoteric kantianism 'The superimposition of imagination upon phenomenal space' has a by the scientific community accepted name: PROPHANTASIA
Anything relating to the inner and outer perceptions (time and space)?
>>25195162yes.
Even JS Mill caught a glimpse of esoteric kantianism>"...we may fancy that we see or feel what we in reality infer. A truth, or supposed truth, which is really the result of a very rapid inference, may seem to be apprehended intuitively."-JS Mill, A System of Logic
>>25195270compare with this excerpt from official esoteric kantian document 3045:As the mind engages in an activity regularly and consistently, eventually this activity becomes an automatic habit. As in strength training, thinking is pushed to the limit of mental exhaustion, rest is taken where no mental activity occurs (stillness of the mind), then thinking is taken up again until exhaustion. In this way, what at an earlier stage of development involved strenuous self-consciously directed attention through tedious reasoning, pain-stakingly connecting one thought to another in a chain of judgments, at a later stage becomes an almost immediate automatic process, where the reasoning itself happens so quickly it would appear to someone ignorant of the method as an intuition. In fact, it does become intellectual intuition in this way; the method has produced a change in the mind to the point where reasoning has achieved such power that it runs through chains of syllogisms at lightning speeds, producing instantaneous insight into the hidden or occult nature of reality. The naysayer will naturally reject that such a thing is possible simply because they themselves have not attempted it, or rather are unwilling to, but as Kant himself said "dass lässt sich bald aus dem Erfolg beurteilen".
THE PSYCHOMETRIC EXTENSION OF THE KANTIAN SYSTEM>Psychometry signifies not merely the measuring of souls and soul capacities, or qualities by our own psychic capacities, but the measurement and judgment of all things conceivable by the human mind ; and Psychometry means practically measuring by the soul, or grasping and estimating all things which are within the range of human intelligence. Psychometry, therefore, is not merely an instrumentality for measuring soul powers, but a comprehensive agency like mathematics for the evolution of many departments of science- Dr. Joseph Rodes Buchanan, Manual of Psychometry p.4
>If we were to flatter ourselves so much as to claim that we know the [things in themselves] , then we would have to be in community with God so as to participate immediately in the divine ideas [...]. To expect this in the present life is the business of mystics and theosophists.RANDOM ACCESS OMNISCIENCE
>We should, therefore, have to regard the human soul as being conjoined in its present life with two worlds at the same time, of which it clearly perceives only the material world, in so far as it is conjoined with a body, and thus forms a personal unit. But as a member of the spiritual world it receives and gives out the pure influences of immaterial natures, so that, as soon as the accidental conjunction has ceased, only that communion remains which at all times it has with spiritual natures.- Kant, A Fragment of Occult Philosophy Aiming to Establish Communion with the Spirit-World
How can one Kantian have so much power so much intellect?
This makes me want to start over with Kant. In fact, I may just do that.
>>25194011I'm assuming you're reading the critique of pure reason for a few months now. As you read the book you probably write down quotations and paraphrase them in your own words. After you have managed to read and somewhat understand--probably-- what you have read for the past month or weeks, you start a "Kant General" thread where you write the conclusions you have drawn of the Kantian doctrine from the chapters and book parts you have read up to the time of posting. Anyway, I have read about 300 pages of the critique of pure reason and some of Jung's magnum opus about symbolism. I'm reading some occultism analyses where the authors try to explain the phenomena from the suflet-- anima or psykhe-- pov (e.g. positive mana, negative mana, taboo). Why, OP, don't you post the thread in /x/ ?
>>25198429holy newfag
>>25195270I thought he was a strict empiricist, certainly not as radical as William James but was unaware of intuitive reasoning
