Kants Theorie der Synthesis

de Carsten Olk

Kant's theory of synthesis has decisive importance for Kant's critical endeavor, namely: to define experience as a combination of understanding and sense perception, of concept and intuition. In light of the elementary connection between intutition and concept, the specific acts that make up synthesis are isolated and examined in their relation to each other. Only thus can one demonstrate that the concept of connectedness is still relevant within the reception of Kant's philosophy.