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This 3 page paper examines the Critique of Pure Reason and focuses in Kant's concept of time. Time in general is discussed and an opinion is provided. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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made that time exists and there is little anyone can do to dispute that. Kant (1781) writes: "We cannot, in respect of appearances in general, remove time itself, though we
can quite well think time as void of appearances. " The author quickly comes upon a problem with time, which is that time is something that can be considered infinite.
Few would disagree. One of the most difficult concepts for people to understand is the concept of infinity. How can something never end? But the problem with time being infinite
is that human beings look at it as something finite. It is measured. Kant (1781) explains: "The original representation, time, must therefore be given as unlimited. But when an
object is so given that its parts, and every quantity of it, can be determinately represented only through limitation, the whole representation cannot be given through concepts, since they contain
only partial representations; on the contrary, such concepts must themselves rest on immediate intuition." Kant (1781) goes on to relate time to something that occurs within man and not something
that can be objectively measured. To a great extent, Kant argues that time does not really exist, at least not as people perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski
(1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both space and time are forms that the human mind invents (Zebrowski, 1994). Time really has
no temporal or spatial qualities and the universe that is seen is only present when the mind is working (Zebrowski, 1994). The author adds, in respect to how Kant
looks at things: "This is not an arbitrary universe, since we cannot simply invent what we perceive, but only things-in-themselves are absolutely real, and unfortunately, unknowable" (Zebrowski, 1994, p.80). This
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