Kant on Causation

A compact note on causality as a category required for objective temporal succession.
Published

August 27, 2026

Kant treats causality as a rule required to distinguish an objective succession from a merely subjective sequence of perceptions. The category is not derived by generalizing repeated observations; it helps make experience of an ordered event possible.

This is best read alongside Hume on causation, whose skepticism sets the problem Kant is trying to answer.