Meillassoux’s reinterpretation of Kant’s transcendental dialectic
- 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.
Author: | Kristian Schäferling |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-863655 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0224 |
ISSN: | 2543-8875 |
Parent Title (English): | Open Philosophy |
Publisher: | De Gruyter Poland |
Place of publication: | Warsaw |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/11/22 |
Date of first Publication: | 2022/11/22 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2024/08/12 |
Tag: | Transcendental Dialectic; contingency; experience; freedom; nature; necessity; objective but indeterminate validity; real use of reason; speculative thought; unity |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 16 |
First Page: | 702 |
Last Page: | 717 |
Note: | Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Goethe-Universität. |
Institutes: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |