THE RELATIONAL CATEGORIES

Abstract

The task of this chapter is to answer the question of whether Kant's theory of the relational categories as found in the Critique may be interpreted as referring to embodied practices in a way analogous to what we found in the previous chapter concerning the category of quantity. The approach of the chapter will be as follows. First, I examine what Kant has to say about these categories in the Analogies of experience, which is the part of the Analytic of principles dealing with these categories and their function relative to time. A central idea put forward here is that objective time determination is only possible given these categories. However, Kant also contends that such determination presupposes the existence of external objects.