Lectures On the Philosophy of Kant And Other Philosophical Lectures & Essays
Lectures On the Philosophy of Kant And Other Philosophical Lectures & Essays
Henry Sidgwick
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That in it which cannot be thought as a predicate. ' Watson's Selections, pp. 141, 142. ' Cf. Locke, Essay concerning Human Under starviing, Bk. Ii. Ch. Xiii. § 19 ; ch. XxiiL §§ 1, 2. ' Prolegomena, § 46, Mahaffy's ed. P. \2Z fin. VIII THE TEANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC 141 The only reason for confining his treatment of it to the Thinking Subject, is that only in this case did Reason appear to him to have deceived itself into thinking that it had found the absolute subject it sought for.^ But the fa...llacious Metaphysics that Kant goes on to attack, here and in the Kritik, does not content itself with affirming that in the Ego we find an absolute subject — i. E. A subject which cannot be thought as a predicate : its fallacy rather lies in a further assumption that the Ego is a simple substance and therefore indestructible. But similar simple, indestructible substances had also been not only sought but (believed to be) found by the reason of metaphysicians in the material world : and the search for such permanent indestructibles was by no means identical with the effort to find a subject which could not be thought as a predicate.
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