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Kant - A biography ~ Manfred Kuehn
Still later, Kant tried to fix the argument by introducing language first used by Fichte plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-fichte The subject constitutes itself as a subject. Kant now argues that we can be aware of being moved only insofar as we move ourselves, and, more importantly, that we are aware of other things only insofar as we are aware of our ourselves. In a most remarkable passage, Kant claims that “Iam an object of myself and of my representations that There is also something external to me in my own product. I make myself. We make everything ourselves.” More specificall, the

“understanding begins with the consciousness of itself and performs thereby a logical act. To this the manifold of outer and inner intuition are joined, and the subject makes itself into an object by a limitless sequence. But this intuition is not empirical. . . it determines the object a priori by the act of the subject that it is the owner and originator of its own representation” ~ Page 412