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Excerpt from The Kantian Epistemology and Theism
Descartes Discourse on Method and Meditatiom. Tveitch, Introduction to descartes.for Philosophy is very plain. It is this: In the very first act of knowledge there is a necessary and vital connection between know ing and being within our consciousness. They imply each other. Hence Reality is spiritual, and there is no ground for the positing of lifeless things in themselves which can never be known, and no more ground is there for regarding as unreal that which we do know. Thought and being are thus together from the very first, and Kant's doctrine of the synthetic unity of apperception is wrong. But there is another lesson quite as important for Philosophy taught us here. We learn that all consciousness is personal consciousness. The two are inseparable, and there is no such thing as conscious ness in the abstract. Existence is personal conscious existence. It is to the greatest degree concrete. There is no such thing as pure, unconscious, qualityless being, coming by a necessary evolution to be clothed upon with concreteness. Philosophy must start with Being as known in our self/consciousness, otherwise we cannot know the nature of Being, and we cannot evolve it by any extra conscious way. We do not wish to be misunderstood here. For while the very point of our criticism of Kant is that he never transcends individual human consciousness, we still believe that Dr. Caird is mistaken when he says that if we take our stand in individual con sciousness we can never transcend it. On the contrary, the truth is this, that if we do not start with our self-consciousness we can never know the nature of Reality. If, however, we do thus start, we find principles which have a necessity which must come from a source above our individual consciousness, showing that it is in harmony with Universal Consciousness.
We must give only a very brief space in showing the contradic tions involved in denying that the real is rational in the case of space and time, that is knowledge in the sphere of perception, and pass on to Kant's doctrine of causality as being of special import ance in relation to Theism, and furnishing a general example of the categories.
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