Abstract for the Kant in Asia International Conference

at Hong Kong Baptist University

20-23 May 2009

Wong Kwok Kui, “Kant and Schelling on Subjective and Objective Time”

Kant's understanding of human personhood is closely related to his view of time. For Kant, time has two aspects: first, subjective time as an inner sense in which there is no abiding ‘I'; second, objective time as a form of intuition in which every object of experience must appear and is thus characterized by homogeneity. Schelling, on the other hand, criticized Kant for his alleged failure to recognize the general subjectivity of time, and argued that time generates anew with each thing, so that the homogeneity of time is actually an “illusion”. This paper will look at how Kant's and Schelling's look at the subjectivity and objectivity of time. Special attention will be given to the question of how subject time of inner sense can be connected with the objective time, and what role transcendental apperception plays in these two forms of time.

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