The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

by Robert J. Stainton

Book Overview

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the "Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul". This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the unity of consciousness. In Kant's illustration, the unity had by our perception of a verse cannot be accounted for if the words of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402068921
• ISBN13: 9781402068928
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"