"On the Transcendental Aesthetic" and Its Influence

Author: Chen Shaoming
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book places greater emphasis on the awareness of ancient annotators in pursuing the original intent of the work, but is not rigidly bound by the order of the original text. Instead, it is dedicated to revealing possible logical structures. That is, it attempts to connect different aspects of arguments in places where the author did not clarify their relationships, following a logically reasonable sequence, while also deducing the logically implied but unexplicit meanings. This enhances its comprehensibility and provides opportunities to connect with modern philosophical topics. The research in this book focuses not only on clarifying textual issues but also on interpreting its philosophical connotations. There are two existing approaches that can be followed. One is to adhere to fixed or select certain popular philosophical concepts, then extract some similar principles or passages from the original text, and finally point out which ideology it belongs to. The other is to imitate the methods of ancient annotators, closely examining the original text, interpreting and commenting on it sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph in the order of the text. Its characteristic is to consider the original thought while allowing readers to directly compare the original text to judge the acceptability of the interpretation.