Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our innersense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem tobegin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kantand the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for Kant, a reflectiveact must take place before any judgment occurs. Building on Kant's metaphysics, which uses the soul, the world, and God as regulative principles, Goldmandemonstrates how Kant can open doors to reflection, analysis, language, sensibility, and understanding. By establishing a regulative self, Goldman offers a way to bringunity to the subject through Kant's seemingly circular reasoning, allowing forcritique and, ultimately, knowledge.
