rational psychology, n.All

Rational psychology (n.) treated ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠mind as a thing when it asked whether the soul is simple, immaterial, a substance.

Rational psychology (n.) exists ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not as a doctrine that adds to self-knowledge but as a discipline that fences reason in — from soulless materialism on one side and groundless spiritualism on the other.

Rational psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠governed by a single representation, 'I am': individual in every respect, it proclaims itself a universal proposition valid for every thinking being, and so seems to reach farther than any experience could.

Rational psychology (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the form of pneumatism wins the debate about the soul unopposed, yet its whole plausibility dissolves into haze when put to the fiery test of critique.

Rational psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠really a mere anthropology of the inner sense — knowledge of the thinking self as alive, and nothing about its eternity.

Rational psychology (n.) collapses ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠along with its chief supports: no path leads from the mere form of consciousness to a simple nature that can be met with nowhere in experience.

Rational psychology (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a single text, "I think," from which it must spin its whole wisdom; the least empirical predicate — a single pleasure or displeasure — would turn it into empirical psychology.

Rational psychology (n.) owes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its existence to a mere misunderstanding: the unity of consciousness that grounds the categories is mistaken for an intuition of the subject as an object.