Published: 2025-12-19

Immanuel Kant’s Unfinished “Copernican Revolution”

Józef Okulewicz

Abstract

Immanuel Kant radically shifted the frame of

reference for the human understanding of the

cognitive process. This is why he described his

philosophy as the “Copernican Revolution”.

Reason recreates within itself the conditions

that contributed to the existence of the reality being explored. However, because there are

infinitely many conditions, only the Absolute

encompasses them all. Therefore, the practical

application of this discovery became problematic.

It was Józef Hoene-Wroński who took up this

philosophy and completed the reform begun by

Kant. First, he replaced the infinity of conditions with countability. This allowed him to

focus on a single component, the condition.

This, however, does not stand alone, because as

a conditional, it is conditioned by the preceding

condition. This revealed the fourth aspect of

conditioning, namely the conditioning aspect,

which Kant did not mention because it was obscured by the Absolute.

Keywords:

conditioning, absolute philosophy, law of creation

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Okulewicz, J. (2025). Immanuel Kant’s Unfinished “Copernican Revolution”. Humanities and Natural Sciences, 31(31), 121–131. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/12194

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