Published: 2018-09-081

The Question of the Ontological Status of Kant’s Regulative Ideas

Dariusz Pakalski
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.578

Abstract

The article is an attempt to interpret Immanuel Kant’s thesis that all questions concerning the regulative ideas can be finnaly reduced to a version of the ontological question. In the first part of the article the author discusses three ragulative ideas: psychological, cosmological, and theological one. In the subsequent part an attempt is made to demonstrate that in the philopsophy of Kant the notion of ontology refers to the system of methaphysics as a whole of cognition a priori, and cannot be esteemed only as a notion whose application is puerly negative.

Keywords:

idea, rational psychology, rational cosmology, rational theology, ontology

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Pakalski, D. (2018). The Question of the Ontological Status of Kant’s Regulative Ideas. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (19), 221–237. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.578

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