Abstract
Experience is just an instantaneous state of sensitive impression occurring within that which has that experience. Thus may be resumed the epistemological substance of that which constitutes the empiricist stand polarized in the form of thought whose paragon is David Hume and that was non-critically accepted by Immanuel Kant. Such position, contrary to the Aristotelian thesis, prevents any trans-sensitive, thus, trans-material, mode of thought. Metaphysics becomes impossible. Kant procures to overcome this impossibility through the creation of a logic-epistemological construction that he designates as transcendental architectonics. The world within which Kantian transcendentalism obliged the intellectuality to live is a world reduced to a logic game, lacking any substance other than itself, a solipsism that condemns the human being to living definitely alienated from a reality different from the one of the mere thought. His overcoming proposal for this new standstill by means of a new theory of action labours in the contradiction of theoretically postulating something that reason can never postulate for there is not and there cannot be any empirical reference. The truth of theoretical reason prevents the truth of practical or aesthetical reason.
Translated title of the contribution | Kant’s transcendentalism and ethics a scepticism searching to overcome itself in contradiction |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 1-20 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Synesis |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Kant
- Hume
- Transcendentalism
- Ethics
- Contradiction