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"Imagination and the Question
of Freedom in Kant, Fichte and Schelling"
I demonstrate that through a process of systematic
thinking, imagination can be viewed as a product,
synthesis and rule. I disagree with the ontological
Heideggerian view that imagination is the "common
root". I begin my investigation with Kant who
showed us the boundaries of the human reason and
understanding. Version A of "Critique of Pure
Reason" reveals to us the empirical or psychological
side of the transcendental "story". Schopenhauer
and Heidegger treated that chapter with scientific
rigor while philosophers such as Fichte and Cassirer
preferred the B Version which is more logical
or epistemological. Fichte's imagination presupposes
intellectual intuition in a scientific way because
it deals with a systematic unity of reason. Schelling
introduces mystical elements in the purely scientific
investigation of imagination. Art for Schelling
is a manifestation of being in the world. Our
thesis is that imagination is free because it
creates itself through itself. This genesis of
freedom, as created by imagination, is based on
self-knowledge of the individual. The process
in which imagination creates itself should be
further analyzed in a systematic fashion, and
in my next study, I will be able to provide a
deeper understanding of our freedom, our place
in the world, and the everlasting mysteries of
our spirit.
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