According to the writer, the future shaped primarily by the allen-compassing technology does not provide a better grasp of reality; on the contrary, the individual is inherently destabilized in the cynical falsification of the real, reduced to an ontological
schematism by the state mechanisms.
Second, theologians may refer to Jesus as divine, by identifying his disposition as exemplifying the "archetype of perfect humanity." Third, Judeo-Christian history poses an empirical problem that theologians can solve by interpreting Jesus's divinity according to the
schematism of analogy.
After Reinhold, the idealists knew that Kant is best read backwards, from the primacy of the practical to the theoretical: the regulative use of reason must figure in apperception (and the
schematism) if the understanding is to be free--if there is to be Wissenschaft.
Through a detailed interpretation of the
schematism in the Critique of Pure Reason Heidegger argues that time is the pre-view we take of phenomena on the basis of which the self 'lets itself be encountered by, concerned by, or in Kant's terms affectively modified by another' (280).
This is where a reworking of Kant's
schematism may prove a trustworthy old avenue for new thought.
Only when the problem of Temporality is pinned down can we succeed in casting light on the obscurity of his doctrine of the
schematism. Furthermore, in this way we can also show why this area has to remain closed to Kant in its real dimensions and in its central ontological function ...
it from Tale's
schematism. Joong-rae's weeping, prostrate prayer before three bare trees complicates our sense of his character,
Alas, these techniques are not up to the task of modelling that dynamis of imagination that generates the '
schematism of our understanding; (..) an art concealed in the depths of the human soul' (Kant, CPR:B181).
The
schematism of the binary opposition of temperaments proposed in this passage (active and contemplative, pragmatic and philosophical) would suggest that for Levi-Strauss the opposition itself extends further than mere empirical individuals, beyond the simple reality of an interpersonal situation experienced by the ethnographer in the field.
(
Schematism, the substitution of ideology for psychology, solemn proclamation, the automation of thought, the loss of the essence of the word - we have here all the signs of the violent demise of language.) All of that "Soviet Kazakhstan" literature, if we are to look at it with detachment, recalls a sick man's feverish dream.
Language is the key integrator here; the central category of "the word" is at once theological and supremely anthropological (human being as linguistic being).(63) Behind the
schematism of the different forms of the word-event is discernible not only Barth's "threefold form of the word of God" (i.e.
I am myself inclined to think that Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations can plausibly be construed as an attempt to solve or at least treat the Kantian problem of concept-grasp (or "one-over-many") that is at the heart of the "Empirical
Schematism" section of Kant's Analytic, though Bix would reject this interpretation for reasons I will sketch shortly.