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Excerpt from The Constitutive and Regulative Principles in Kant: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department or Philosophy) The purpose1 of this essay is to inquire into Kant's reasons for the classification Of principles as constitutive and regulative, and to find, if possible, how far and in what sense the distinction holds. The method employed will appeal to the use of the principles in experience. The inquiry will not extend beyond the limits Of the application of the principles Of the understanding, it being assumed that any other use Of the principles as constitutive or regulative has its basis within those limits. Kant is asking in what the certainty of knowledge consists. He assumes that knowledge, when conceived Of as the whole of our recorded and present subjective experience, has somewhere a stable point with reference to which changes have significance, and from which progress takes its direction. This point is called the Object, and the certainty Of knowledge is established when its relation to the Object is determined. All difficulties which arise in connection with the description Of the knowledge process are just questions Of the nature Of this relation; and they may all be summed up as the problem Of the definition Of the Object. What constitutes the difficulty in the case Of any definition Of the Object, is the tendency, on the one hand, to put the definition in terms of our particular subjective experiences, and on the other, to have left as unaccountable a realistic remainder after the subjective definition has been made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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