TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schäferling, Kristian
T1  - Meillassoux’s reinterpretation of Kant’s transcendental dialectic
T2  - Open Philosophy
N2  - This article attempts to read the Transcendental Dialectic through Meillassoux’s model of the absolute contingency of being in order to rethink some of its central difficulties. Specifically, this concerns better understanding the role played by the categories of relation and modality in the empirical use of the ideas of reason, which underlies their regulative use that is directed at an absolute unity of reason. It will be discussed which questions are implied in the central claim of Meillassoux’s ontology, i.e., that it is possible to derive from the necessity of contingency the existence and noncontradictory being of the thing in itself. First, I will retrace basic points of Meillassoux’s critique of “correlationism”, by means of which he reconfigures the divisions between metaphysics, physics, and ontology. Second, against the background of the Kantian concept of hope, I will examine a relation between the Transcendental Dialectic and ethics, as, respectively, conceived of in Kant and in Meillassoux’s reinterpretation. Third, I will critically ask in how far absolute contingency can be understood as grounding a concept of experience and in which sense the idea of the antinomy chapter in the Transcendental Dialectic contains an argument more complex than Meillassoux’s model suggests.
KW  - Transcendental Dialectic
KW  - speculative thought
KW  - contingency
KW  - necessity
KW  - freedom
KW  - nature
KW  - objective but indeterminate validity
KW  - real use of reason
KW  - unity
KW  - experience
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/86365
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-863655
SN  - 2543-8875
N1  - Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Goethe-Universität.
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
SP  - 702
EP  - 717
PB  - De Gruyter Poland
CY  - Warsaw
ER  -