Abstract
Heidegger’s reading of Kant is deciphered to have illuminated his own project
concerning the basic question of Ontology, Time, Space and History [Temporality,
Spatiality and Historicity] embodying the novel description of Human reality in terms of
Mit-Dasein and Mit-welt [Subjectivity with the public face]. Kant’s Critique of Pure
Reason led Heidegger develop his own project of Existential Phenomenology contrary
to Husserilian Phenomenology. We will discuss the Kantian Heidegger following the
two main issues: one, Heidegger appreciates Kant on his identifying and exploring the
difference of ontic/ontological. Two, Kant prioritizes time over space. Heidegger would
explore the subject of ontic/ontological difference in the sense that ontic knowledge is
the knowledge of particular beings, whereas ontological knowledge is described as the a
priori condition inferring the ontic knowledge. In this sense ontological knowledge
pertains to question of being rather than beings. This is how Heidegger’s Kant
interpretation would differ from the Neo-Kantianism of Marburg School which argued
that Critique of Pure Reason is a work of epistemology. In contrast to this position,
Heidegger held that Critique is a unique work of transcendental philosophy; it is theory
of ontological knowledge but not ontic knowledge. Ontic knowledge of beings must
conform to Being of beings [ontological foundation]. Heidegger holds that this should
be Kant’s “Copernican Revolution”. However, Heidegger would appropriate the
Kantian notion of time in the form of temporality of Dasein. Being manifests itself on
beings through Being-there [Human reality] who purely understands Being. For
Heidegger, temporality of Dasein is the foundation of ontological knowledge indeed.
Syed Alam Shah. (2015) HEIDEGGER’S READINGS OF KANT: APPROPRIATION OF TIME AND SPACE THROUGH UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICITY OF DA-SEIN AS BEING-IN-THE-WORLD, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 54, Issue 2.
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