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De ce este dublă metafizica naturii a lui Kant?
Why Is Kant’s Metaphysics of Nature Double?

Author(s): Rodica Croitoru
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Metaphysics, German Idealism
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Kant’s metaphysics of nature; matter; substance; force; space; the thinking I;

Summary/Abstract: The concept of existence is appropriated to human receptivity and is divided in a corporeal nature, according to our outer senses, and a thinking nature, according to our inner sense. For the corporeal nature, the corresponding part of existence is matter, because it is only by movement that matter becomes the object of outer senses. For the thinking nature, the corresponding part of existence is the thinking I, whose matter is a specific one. For this reason, Kant preferred to give priority to the corporeal nature and its metaphysics, leaving the thinking I only as a metaphysical appendix: as it is not a concept, but only an inner perception, no doctrine of it is possible.

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2025
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 131-140
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian
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