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This paper discusses Heidegger's criticism of Kant's conception of freedom as a peculiar kind of cause. With his view of freedom Kant consummates the central tendencies of traditional ontology, ultimately arising from the Greek understanding of Being in terms of "constant presence". But the causal view does not do justice to the deeper roots of freedom in the transcendence of Dasein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives a reconstruction of the view Kant develops in the § 12 of his Kritik der reinen Vernunft trying to incorporate in his own conception the thematic core of the traditional metaphysical doctrine of the transcendental attributes of being. The systematic motivation and scope of Kant's view in § 12 is better understood in connection with his explanation of the role of reflexive process underlying objective judgements in the "Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflexion", as discussed in an earlier paper by the author. The interpretation offered here stresses the fact that the logical criteria Kant discusses in § 12 fulfill regulative functions guiding reflexive processes, especially in the case of the original formation of empirical concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives a reconstruction of Kant's view in the "Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflexion" of his Critique of Pure Reason on the role of reflexive process underlying objective judgments. Kant's thesis that objective judgments always presuppose reflexive mediation at their basis is taken to refer only to the process of original active production of judgment, and not to the different possible ways of passive assumption without active re-execution. The specific contribution of the so-called "transcendental reflexion" can be described in terms of inclusion of sensibility in the process of comparison of representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the reception and influence that can be made by the book "Critique of Judgement," by Immanuel Kant. It focuses on the central distinction between the determinant and the reflective function, the two fundamental types of functions in the "Faculty of Judgement." Also, the book considers its projection to the experience being developed in the "Critique of Pure Reason."