Explaining the Faculty of Intuition as the Objective Ego

29 October 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

Kant’s main idea about the faculty of intuition entails a knowledge of space and time but does not explain sufficient reasons that show there are no innate ideas. In "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" (1868), Peirce explains that there is no intuition to understand God. I aim to show that innate ideas are transcendental beliefs that correspond to an abstract conception of the personal identity, which creates intuitive space for understanding why there are no innate ideas. This method for constructing rational ideas will provide reasons that explain how substance, in particular, the monad, can have the existence to separate action from the conditions of the world. The utility of objects must be measured in an intuitive sense, a method that determines how there are effects that enable the mind to become aware of the physical relations with the objects of reality.

Keywords

Intuition
Ego
Identity
Consciousness

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