STANDARDNI NARATIV RANE MODERNE FILOZOFIJE: GLAVNI NEDOSTACI I KANTOV UTICAJ
THE STANDARD NARRATIVE OF EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY: THE MAIN FLAWS AND KANT’S INFLUENCE

Summary/Abstract: During the twentieth century, a standard narrative of early modern philosophy was established in the English-speaking world, according to which all authors of this period were divided into two schools of thought: rationalist and empiricist. The main goal set in this text is to examine the central features of this narrative to show its incompleteness and inadequacy in presenting the relations that existed between the figures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We will see that convincing critiques of this theory have been made in the last few decades, which point out its main flaws. The second goal of this paper is to show, by analyzing the texts of Immanuel Kant, that he is not responsible for the creation and dissemination of this narrative, although in the secondary literature the opposite is often claimed.

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