Critique of Pure Reason 5 - Are Rainbows Real?

Wow, we are now in up to our necks. Our common-sense notions of space and time have been thrown away, and we find ourselves chasing it down the rabbit hole. But don't worry, says the Berkleian white rabbit, because it's a rabbit hole all the way down.

WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO NEXT TIME

The only part of Transcendental Aesthetic A that we discussed was the conclusion on time. We omitted all the discussion on space. I'm going to let that slide because eventually we're going to be getting to the Transcendental B and much of what Kant said in A will be repeated in B. So we'll have another bite at the Space Apple. Still, if anyone has questions about something we didn't cover, please let me know. I'm always willing to go over something that we skipped or didn't cover sufficiently.

In the meantime, there's still more to cover in Transcendental Aesthetic A. We left off at the Elucidation. We're going to finish off these final parts of Transcendental A, start into B, and leave off at the Elucidation counterpart in Transcendental Aesthetic B. So essentially, we're going to read from Elucidation A to Elucidation B (I hope that's not confusing). Please read the following sections.

In Transcendental Aestheic A (A37 - A49)
Elucidation
General Remarks

In Transcendental Aesthetic B (B34 - B53)
§§1 through 6

§7 is Elucidation B. Please stop before that section.

If you are using the Guyer translation, the reading covers pp 165 thru 182

COMING UP

07/06/25 - Session 5, Finish Transcendental Aesthetic A, start B
07/20/25 - Session 6, Finisg Aesthetic B, start Transcendental Logic
08/03/25 - Session 7, Start Analytic section of Transcendental Logic

NOTES/RESOURCES

1. Critique of Judgment Blog

https://www.meetup.com/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/events/308213224/?slug=the-toronto-philosophy-meetup&eventId=308213224

2. COJ #1.5 - There's practical and then there's practical

https://open.substack.com/pub/geraldpriddle/p/15-kants-critique-of-judgment?r=2rot22&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

3. Essay, Groundwork for a Metaphysics of Morals

https://open.substack.com/pub/geraldpriddle/p/1-kants-groundwork-to-a-metaphysics?r=2rot22&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

4. SEP article on Christian Wolff. Kant was heavily influenced by Christian Wolff. Below is an article from the Stanford encyclopedia philosophy that describes his philosophical views. In particular, I encourage you to check out Sectin 3 that describes his view of science. We can see where Kant got his ideas from.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wolff-christian/

5. Hot off the press! An analysis of time as explicated in the Transcendental Analytic.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cz2ytKR7Un6vGV8OdPIsW6Ztv-siifL1/view?usp=share_link