The focus of this paper is Cassirer’s Neo-Kantian reading of Kant’s conception of unity of space. Cassirer’s neo-Kantian reading is largely in conformity with the mainstream of intellectualist Kant-scholars, which is unsurprising, given his own intellectualist view of space and perception and his rejection of the existence of a ‘merely sensory consciousness’ as a ‘formless mass of impression’. I argue against Cassirer’s reading by relying on a Kantian distinction first recognized by Heinrich Rickert, a neo-Kantian from the Southwest school, between Kenntnis (roughly knowledge by acquaintance) and Erkenntnis (roughly propositional knowledge). Correspondingly, I claim that concepts and categories are conditions for Erkenntnis of objects as such, namely for thinking of and apprehending the pre-existing unity as an object, rather than for the ‘constitution’ of this very unity.

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卡西尔和康德论空间的统一性和想象力的作用

本文的重点是卡西尔对康德的空间统一概念的新康德式解读。卡西尔的新康德式阅读在很大程度上与知识分子康德学者的主流一致，这并不奇怪，因为他本人对空间和知觉的看法，以及他拒绝将“纯粹的感官意识”视为“无形的物质”的存在。印象'。我反对卡西里尔的读物，是因为它依赖于Kenantnis（大致上是相识的知识）和Erkenntnis（大致是命题的知识）之间的康德区别，该区别首先是来自西南派的新康德主义者海因里希·里克特（Heinrich Rickert）认可的。相应地，我主张概念和类别是这样的对象的厄肯特尼斯的条件，即思考和理解先前存在的作为对象的统一性，