Philosophy writing about Transcendental Ideas:

According to Kant, the transcendental ideas bridge gaps between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds. Kant says that there are three types of transcendental ideas: (i) Self, (ii) Cosmos which means totality, (iii) God. Kant calls transcendental ideas as regulative ideas because they regulate and synthesize our experiences on a large scale. These transcendental ideas help us in directing the understanding towards our goals. Kant believes that pure reasons combine all our psychological activities into a unit by considering it as an idea of self. The first regulative idea I itself is viewed as thinking nature or soul i.e. self-sustaining intelligence. (Reason operates) to represent all determinations as existing in a single subject i.e. all powers are derived to from a single fundamental energy (power). And all changes belong to the same permanent being. Kants transcendental ego has few of the positive consequences like as under: 1. American pragmatists acknowledged Kants influence on their term pragmatism by linking it with Transcendental Dialectic. 2. Davidson constructed anomalous monism by referring to the Kants treatment model on conflicts between free will and causality 3. Kants transcendental methods are less mysterious then his followers.

4. Transcendental methods has essentially two novel features: Synthetic a priori judgment and conception of a condition of a possible experience The negative consequences of Kants transcendental ego are: 1. Kant has failed to relate consciousness and fundamental reality. 2. Kant has not laid properly the major problem between theoretical and practical reason, science and morality, desire and pure will and the transcendent and empirical egos. 3. There is also a problem between relationship among the transcendental egos of different persons and the transcendental ego and the empirical ego of a single person. 4. The role of reason and independence from historical and cultural influences suggest additional problems.

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