Space & Time: Kant's Transcendental Idealism

Abstract

This report is an exposition of a select part of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, namely the first part of the Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, The Transcendental Aesthetic. Our exposition provides the reader with an in-depth investigation of the specific deliberations that comprises the Transcendental Aesthetic. We explain Kant's view on space and time as pure a priori intuitions, which serves as the foundation for his doctrine ‘transcendental idealism’. This doctrine, and its epistemological consequences, is then detailed. Finally, we will simultaneously provide a historical contextualization of Kant's views in relation to relevant preceding philosophical norms.