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The Copernican Revolution: Subject and Consciousness

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Maimon’s criticism of Reinhold’s principle of consciousness is tied in with his criticism of the concept of a thing-in-itself. By considering representation (Vorstellung) as related to an object and a subject, Rein-hold presupposes the reality of both, object-in-itself and subject-in-itself. A relation between A and B as between two objects presupposes their reality as separate entities. Only in a dogmatic system of thought, according to which the reality of things-in-themselves is assumed, is it proper to speak of representation as related to an object.

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  1. See Logik, p. 319.

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  2. See ibid., p. 321. This analogy is also used by Fichte (see über den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre, 1794, p. 51). Kuntze (Die Philosophie Salomon M aimons, p. 352, n. 1) is inclined to think that Fichte borrowed the analogy from Maimon. But this is not conclusive. Fichte may have known it from another source, for it is of a much older date than Maimon. John Locke employs this analogy with reference to the concept of substance (cf. An Essay concerning Human Understanding, chap. XXIII).

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  3. See below, chap. VIII, Principle of Determinability.

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  4. See Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde, 10 Bd., 3 Stück, pp. 139 f.

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  5. See Bacon, p. 83.

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  6. See ibid., pp. 84 ff.

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  7. Cf. Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff, English translation entitled Substance and Function by W. C. Swabey and M. C. Swabey.

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  9. Quoted by Whitehead, op. cit. ibid.

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    Samuel Atlas

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© 1964 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague. Netherlands

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Atlas, S. (1964). The Copernican Revolution: Subject and Consciousness. In: From Critical to Speculative Idealism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9106-7_4

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