ABSTRACT
The concept of nature beyond or behind possible experience is for the cognition a boundary notion only. Kant's ethics neither aesthetic offer a positive solution to the problem of representation of that which is beyond concepts of the understanding. This chapter argues that the 'supersensible', as Kant also calls it, has ontological significance in both. In his ethics it is more than a mere postulate for practical reasoning, and in his aesthetics more than a mere formal analogy between symbolic empirical object and rational idea. Kant's views on the positive sense in which one cognize the world as actors in it, and then re-examine aspects of both Kant's first Critique account of representation of the absolute in ideas of reason and his third Critique supplement to that in terms of aesthetic ideas. The chapter examines the way in which his account of symbolic representation constitutes a positive answer to the question of how to represent the supersensible to sense.
