Lewin, M. 2022. The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense, Open Philosophy 5/1: 340-359. https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0203. Abstract: In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding, and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one, and […]
Tag: Classical German Philosophy
Transcendental Philosophy as a Scientific Research Programme
Lewin, M. 2021. Transcendental Philosophy as a Scientific Research Programme, Kantian Journal 40/3: 93-126. https://doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2021-3-4. [Kant Lecture in Kaliningrad, the original text is in Russian (see below)]. Abstract: Transcendental philosophy was not born like Athena out of Zeus’s head, mature and in full armour from the very beginning. That is why in both prefaces to the Critique of […]
Reason, Ideas, and Their Functions in Classical German Philosophy
Lewin, M. 2020. Reason, Ideas, and Their Functions in Classical German Philosophy, Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 36/1: 4-23. (in Rus.). https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.101. Абстракт: В Германии на протяжении последних двух десятилетий возрос интерес к трансцендентальной диалектике «Критики чистого разума». Однако авторы часто не обращают внимания на то, что кантовская теория разума (в узком смысле), […]
Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Concept of Reason. The Problem of Different Demands
Lewin, M. 2019. Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Concept of Reason. The Problem of Different Demands, Hegel-Jahrbuch 2019: 146-153. https://doi.org/10.3790/hgjb.2019.1.146. 1 Introduction According to Habermas, it was Hegel, who provoked the discourse of modernity (concerning the question, which principle should be the main point of orientation in philosophy) by creating an overwhelming concept of reason as absolute knowledge […]