Kant’s world is incoherent without self-consciousness’s unifying gift

Evidence

The manifold of sensibility, empirical consciousness as intuition and sensation, is itself something unintegrated (Unverbundenes), … the world is in itself falling to pieces (in sich Zerfallendes), and only gets objective coherence support, substantiality, multiplicity, and even actuality and possibility, through the good offices (Wohltat) of the self-consciousness of the human being endowed with intellect. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1188

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: Hegel’s sharp attack here mocks the Kantian ‘good offices’ of intellectual self-consciousness — worth chasing how this caricature feeds his rejection of merely formal unity.

Related

• Kant showed propositions have a ternary structure mediated by self-consciousness (similarity 0.81)
• Enlightenment nihilism is a translation of Protestant religious consciousness, not an escape from it (similarity 0.80)
• The universal soul is substance, not a single subject (similarity 0.78)