I discuss the philosophical significance of Kant's great cosmological work of 1755, the Universal Natural History. I discuss how Kant's interest in Newtonian universal forces led him to affirm a peculiar version of the physical influx theory. I argue that Kant's speculations about life on other planets are highly significant because they point to a key feature of Kant's theory of physical influx, namely that "the nimble motions of the body" stand as necessary conditions of the possibility of knowledge. This work directs us to an important topic that has received little scholarly interest: the relation between the body and knowledge in Kant's philosophical writings.
For nearly all of his career, Kant believed that the body stands as a condition of knowledge. One could trace the relation between the body and knowledge all the way from Kant's first published writing in 1747 to his monumental final work, the Opus postumum. One of the reasons why this element of Kant's philosophy has not been widely explored is that many readers have underestimated the significance of Kant's pre-critical works. Today I would like to discuss the philosophical significance of Kant's great cosmological work of 1755, the Universal Natural History.
Other commentators have focused on the scientific merits of this work almost to the exclusion of its extensive philosophical content. I believe that this work provides the key to understanding Kant's metaphysical system of physical influx. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this doctrine, it affirms causation between substances, for example between the soul and the body. (1) It competed with two other metaphysical doctrines, namely pre-established harmony and occasionalism. Up through the early part ...
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...ssess in our lifetimes. Cognition as we know it is without exception marked by the way "that the forces of the human soul become hemmed in and impeded by the obstacles of a crude matter to which they are most intimately bound" (1:357; Jaki, p. 188).
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(1) Eric Watkins has traced the history of these charges in great detail in his "The Development of Physical Influx in Early Eighteenth Century Germany", Review of Metaphysics 49 (December 1995), and in his forthcoming "From Pre-established Harmony to Physical Influx: Leibniz's Reception in Eighteenth Century Germany."
(2) References to Universal Natural History are given both to the Akademie pagination and to Stanley Jaki's 1981 English translation. All translations are Jaki's.
(3) Kant predicts the existence of planets beyond Saturn's orbit, but of course none of them had been discovered by the 1750s.
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...nd this is the result of the unity of synthesis of imagination and apperception. The unity of apperception which is found in all the knowledge is defined by Kant as affinity because it is the objective ground of knowledge. Furthermore, all things with affinity are associable and they would not be if it was not for imagination because imagination makes synthesis possible. It is only when I assign all perceptions to my apperception that I can be conscious of the knowledge of those perceptions. This understanding of the objects, also known as Faculty of Rules, relies on the sense of self and is thus, the source of the laws of nature.
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