The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception

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Mar 16, 201141:49Education

Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge. It is not merely a condition that I myself require in knowing an object, but is a condition under which...

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