Fleeting thoughts: Transcendentalism as a philosophical method to totality

The viewpoint: it will be that of metaphilosophy rather than that of history of philosophy studying Kant’s or Hegel’s philosophy or real ways of the transformation of the former to the latter. Thus, a special subject of philosophy is postulated: totality. It is independent of different possible interpretations in different philosophical systems during the milenia of Western philosophy and theology.

“Totality”: one means that kind of wholeness which has to contain its externality within its internality, and thus, within it in definition.

“Transcendentalism”: a properly philosophical method directed to totality. It represents its externality within its internality in a way conserving the difference between external and internal elements within totality.

“Transcendental dialectics”: one means the correspondence (“synthesis”) of an internal element (“thesis”) to an external element (“antithesis”), as an element of totality.

“Transcendental metaphilosophy”: transcendentalism being a method definable within metaphilosophy to a series of philosophical systems can be applied in turn to metaphilosophy as an external viewpoint to philosophy. Thus, transcendentalism allows for metaphilosophy to be considered as a part of philosophy as a corollary from the special subject of philosophy, namely totality, and the “bad infinity” of a series of metaphilosophies to be escaped.

“Transcendental information”: the sketched approach to transcendentalism allows and needs a series of new concepts linking philosophy to mathematics rather than only to logic, and even to physics and science of nature. The first in it is “transcendental information” meaning the reverse correspondence to that “transcendental dialectics” above. It possesses the formal structure of the unit of information, a bit, and thus, that of information.  

“Transcendental time”: both “transcendental information” and “transcendental dialectics” generate opposite series of members, which can be considered as opposite directions of the philosophically defined “time”.