Document Type : Original Article
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1 PhD Student in Comparative Philosophy, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
Abstract
Causality and time are the most central subjects in Kant's philosophy. He considers phenomena as objects of experience that are possible only with the law of causality and determines them in temporal relation. Kant responded to Hume who considered causality to be purely empirical and habit-based, and saw the causality to be a priori. For Kant, there is an order among human representations; the current state in this order is correlated to a prior and past state, and this correlation is still undetermined. Determining the current phenomenon from the past phenomenon is possible through time; so this mental sequence becomes an objective sequence, and phenomena are determined through their temporal determination. This process for Kant makes possible an empirical understanding of the time sequence. Causality does not occur through sensory perception and comparison of phenomena by repetition, uniformly, and through a succession of previous phenomena; rather, causality is an a priori concept. Kant introduces time in any transition from one state to another state and thus deals with the empirical determination of time. From Kant's point of view, the relationships are not in the phenomena, but the links of time have an empirical structure, according to which we determine objectively these phenomena as perceptual objects of a single experience with the help of A Priori Principles.
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