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This book argues that Kant and Sartre share a significant number of fundamental philosophical theses by exploring Sartres critiques against Kant. Beginning with The Transcendence of the Ego , it is shown that Sartres misconception of transcendental philosophy resulted in him not giving sufficient consideration to the ontological claims made by Kant in The Critique of Pure Reason , which led to Sartres confusion on the relation between Kants and his own account of self. After a consideration of their views on what the self is, Sartres writings on the reflective and the pre-reflective cogito in Being and Nothingness are compared to Kants accounts of inner sense and apperception. Ultimately, it is shown that the task of knowing self exemplifies the more general problem of the metaphysical and epistemic relation of subject to objects, and, like Kant, Sartre draws a transcendental distinction between things as they appear and as they are in themselves.
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