ABSTRACT
The present chapter aims to show that Gerold Prauss’s transcendental philosophy of the space continuum, published in 2015, provides a persuasive way of further developing the Kantian theory of space. Showing this involves, first of all, displaying the problems which Prauss finds with Kant’s view that space is an original continuous magnitude (quantum continuum) that, as such, is composed of parts. The main difference between Kant’s view and Prauss’s view is that, for Prauss, the primordial continuum of space is not viewed as a quantity of discrete magnitudes but rather as a pure quality that originates in the spontaneity of the subject and that yields the presupposition for the subsequent appearance of discrete magnitudes. Finally, the chapter shows that this modification of the concept of continuum is anticipated by Kant himself.
