Self - knowledge in § of the Transcendental Aesthetic

Kant’s claim that time is a subjective form of intuition was first proposed in his Inaugural Dissertation “De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis” of , which he delivered upon being appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the university of Königsberg. It is in this dissertation that Kant for the first time puts forward his startling claim that time is not objective and real but a pure form of intuition. Section  ‘On the principles of the form of the sensible world’ deals with space and time. In § he discusses time, claiming that it is “an absolutely first formal principle of the sensible world” (AA: , p. ).