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PIMENTA, Olavo Calábria. Da relação entre os graus de conhecimento e as capacidades de representação em Kant. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2013, vol.27, n.01, suppl., pp.281-301. ISSN 1982-596X.

At the Jäsche Logic we find a description of the degrees of knowledge according to Kant, which in ascending order would be as follows: to represent, to perceive, to be acquainted, to know, to understand, to have insight and to comprehend (Log: 09, 64-65), with the following warning at the fourth level: “the animals also be acquainted with objects, but do not know them” (Log: 09, 65). It is well known the Kantian definition of knowledge as a result of the application of concepts of the understanding to objects of sensible intuition. We also know his thesis that the “categories are concepts which prescribe laws a priori to appearances, therefore to nature, as the set of all appearances” (KrV: B163). We aim to analyze in this article that ordered series of levels of knowledge by considering the specific role Kant assigns to each of the faculties of representation that compose the human cognitive apparatus and that contribute to the construction of knowledge as descriptions made principally at the KrV (AA 3:04), Anthropologie (AA 07), Logik (AA 09) and Vorlesungen (AA 24: ff.). We hold the position that these different levels of knowledge are due to increasing operational complexity provided, first, by the senses, so they get the disconnected multiple of intuition in a merely passive way, and then by imagination that develop spontaneously a set of synthesis subjectively unified, building appearances; Erscheinungen; through the formation of images in space and association intuitions in time, to finally and with the collaboration of the understanding, which prescribes laws to nature (KrV: B165, B163, B159), to elaborate the empirical knowledge of the objects of experience or phenomena;Phaenomena, by the objective reunion of the multiplicity of appearances under rules of intellectual unity.

Palavras-chave : Degrees of Knowledge; Mind Faculties; Cognitive Operations; Not Rational Beings.

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