The Powers of Pure Reason

Release on 2016-11-03 | by Alfredo Ferrarin

Ferrarin, A. “Mathesis e costruzione tra geometria antica e moderna.” Teoria 11: 2, 1991, 87–104. ————. “Autocoscienza, riferimento dell'io e conoscenza di sé. Introduzione ad un dibattito contemporaneo.” Teoria 12: 1, 1992, 111–52.

Author: Alfredo Ferrarin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226419381
Category: Philosophy
Page: 325
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The goal of the present book is nothing less than to correct what Alfredo Ferrarin calls the "standard reading” of Kant’s. Ferrarin argues that this widespread form of interpretation has failed to do justice to Kant’s philosophy primarily because it is rooted in several uncritical and unjustified assumptions. Two are particularly egregious: a compartmentalization of the First Critique, and an isolation of each Critique from the others. Ultimately these two assumptions cause one to lose sight of the fact that the cognitive/epistemological functions laid out in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic are functions of an overarching pure reason of which the constitution of experience (and of a science of nature) is only one problem among others. This book, by contrast, argues that the main problem, which pervades the entire first critique, is the power that reason has to reach beyond itself and legislate over the world. Ferrarin pays close attention to both the Transcendental Dialectic and the Doctrine of Method where Kant lays out his conception of cosmic philosophy as embodied in the ideal philosopher.