Kant's Transcendental Freedom Scheme:Taking Transcendental Idealism as the Key
The third antinomy in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason starts with the infinite inquiry of nature,through the solution of transcendental freedom by transcendental idealism,finally realize the compatibility of nature and freedom by the same subject having two characters.Among them,transcendental idealism is the key to grasp Kant's transcendental freedom scheme.This paper attempts to take the transcendental idealism as the key,through the analysis of the relevant texts of Critique of Pure Reason,to show that:on the one hand,Kant distinguishes the phenomenon from the thing in itself,making the phenomenal world comply with the provisions of the law of natural causality;On the other hand,it stipulates that the limited rational being is free at the level of rational knowledge,so as to meet human's pursuit of infinity.Kant provides an epistemological solution to the problem of transcendental freedom,an infinite free space for human practical behavior,and promotes the problem of subjectivity since Descartes.