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Leibniz on Innate Ideas and Kant on the Origin of the Categories by Alberto Vanzo is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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In his essay against Eberhard, Kant denies that there are innate con cepts. Several scholars take Kant's statement at face value. They claim that Kant did not endorse concept innatism, that the categories are not innate concepts and that Kant's views on innateness are significantly different from Leibniz's. This paper takes issue with those claims. It argues that Kant's views on the origin of intellectual concepts are remarkably similar to Leibniz's. Given two widespread notions of innateness, the dispositional notion and the input/output notion, intellectual concepts are innate for Kant no less than for Leibniz. ## Introduction In his essay against Eberhard, Kant emphatically denies that there are innate con cepts: The Critique admits absolutely no implanted or innate representations. One and all, whether they belong to intuition or to concepts of the understanding, it considers them as acquired.1 In particular, "universal transcendental concepts of the understanding", i. e. the categories, are "acquired and not innate" (Entd., 8:223, see 249). Several scholars take these statements at face value. They hold that Kant did not endorse concept innatism, that the categories are not in
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- Author
- Alberto Vanzo
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)