The Simplicity Argument and the Unconscious: Plotinus, Cudworth, Leibniz, and Kant

I argue that Kant’s four Paralogistic conclusions concerning (a) substantiality; (b1) unity and (b2) immortality, in the famous “Achilles argument”; (c) personal identity; and (d) metaphysical idealism, in the first edition Critique of Pure Reason (1781), are all connected by being grounded in a com...

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Veröffentlicht: 2008
In: Philosophy & theology
Jahr: 2008, Band: 20, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 53-83
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