Kant's doctrine of reflective judgment

Separations and unions

Kant's doctrine of reflective judgment gets extended, with Hegel and the other German Idealists, to include the constitution of determinate selves as part of a process that creates concepts, rules, and grammars, so separating and relating universal and particular, along with other dualities. Modern individuality comes about when that mediation is the most completed and self-reflective.

I rely on this to argue

• that the self is not above or below the process but within it, itself mediated
• that the self is not a given thing, and so neither a basic universal nor a basic particular.

• [Nearby: Background philosophical influences -- Husserl on horizons -- Hegel's denial of immediacy ]