Kant i ideja transcendentalne filozofije
Kant and the Idea of Transcendental Philosophy

Author(s): Marijan Krivak
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Idea; transcendental philosophy; “primacy of practical”; Hegel; Heidegger; Foucault;
Summary/Abstract: Kant’s “idea of transcendental philosophy” shows his debt to the history of philosophy. Namely, it is about a latent homage to Plato as the inaugural thinker of the West. Nevertheless, Kant’s idea of philosophy will not continue to follow this path of thought. His methodology will remain a guide for the possibility of realizing “metaphysics as a science”. But... although in the history of philosophy – primarily through his Critique of the Pure Mind (1781) – he will remain recorded as a turning point thinker of the so-called “criticism”, his contribution to contemporary critical thought will remain life-giving through its successors. In the direct hereditary line it will be Fichte, and then Hegel. Finally, Kant will gain his true affirmation in Heidegger’s study “Kant and the problem of metaphysics”. What of that is “alive” today, for us “present”, hic et nunc? First of all, it is about a peculiar “architecture of the pure mind”, which is to be realized as a kind of “system art”. Of course, Kant will stop, in the domain of knowledge, at an obstacle called Ding an sich (thing in itself). Therefore, it is important to point out that only Fichte will fully expose the latent primacy of practice in Kant’s thought. Namely, the synthetic a prioriness of courts is related to speculative “exceeding”. Although Kant himself will never assert the “primacy of the mind” – at least not in the cognitive domain – he will govern the entire practice of the “lifeworld” of his philosophy. “The primacy of the practical mind”, thus, will be a kind of inauguration of all Kant’s orientation towards the analysis of current affairs. This will not only be an inspiration for Foucault’s analysis of the text “Answer to the question: what is the Enlightenment?”, but will also reverse the dominance of transcendence in favor of the immanence of the thinking of the (most important?) philosopher of the 20th century – Gilles Deleuze. But that is already the subject of some other analysis and some other presentation...

• Details
• Contents