Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:40:58 +0800
From: Paul Bains <P.Bains-AT-murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Deleuze and Phenomenology


At 08:45 AM 4/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
>(and who if not Kant can be named as the
>philosopher who first and most rigorously made such transcendental
>conditions of consciousness a proper topic of philosophy?).

In the Western tradition Duns Scotus and others in the premodern black hole
btwn 1350 and 1650 (the least studied period of W. Phil). In the 'east' the
tibetan rDzogs-Chen thinkers who 'operated' around the same time as the
Dunce. On that tradition see anything by Herbert Guenther.

Kant is the master demon of modern idealism/phenomenology by making the mind
know only the products of its own making and in not recognising the
existence of something that is not changed by thinking about it. This is not
very rigorous. In fact Kant moved from one dogmatic slumber into another
even deeper one.
Paul.

Paul