Time and memory in Kant’s theory of the self
- Autores: Hector Luis Pacheco Acosta
- Directores de la Tesis: Silvia De Bianchi (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2018
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Salvi Turró (presid.), Fernando Vidal (secret.), Klemme Heiner Friedrich (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
In this thesis, I analyse Kant’s various characterizations of the self, which, if coherently related, may constitute a theory of the self or “self-knowledge”. Such a theory consists of a particular form of knowledge of the human being and rests principally, although not exclusively, on experience. This theory has three axes. The first one deals with the connection between inner sense, understood as a condition by which the subject draws the attention to its own existence, and time, which organizes the representations derived from experience as well as those which, once derived from experience, are reproduced via memory. The second one focuses on the content of the latter experience and the social factors that make the development of that content possible. Finally, the third one is concerned with memory, as long as the latter is committed with the storing and retrieval of the materials derived from the human being’s own experience. This thesis, therefore, focuses not only on the transcendental conditions that make human (inner) experience possible, but also on the anthropological factors that influence the development of the content of that experience. However, the yearned theory of the self in Kant reconstructs not only a self-knowledge, but also a form of knowledge that may address the human being (considered as a free-acting being) towards its self-perfection. All in all, if we consider Kantian metaphysical theory of experience in conjunction with his anthropological theory of the human being, Kant’s picture of the self begins to take shape in a clear and very stimulating form.
