Kant’s Importance for European Philosophy. The Perspective of Hermeneutic Philosophy

Andrzej Przyłębski
Adam-Mickiewicz University of Poznan (Poland)

https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-02-06

Abstract. The article is a short presentation and critical evaluation of the main aspects of Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy. It focuses on ontological consequences of the so-called Copernican turn that places man in a self-created, phenomenal world, cutting off any hope for his contact with the transcendent reality, independent of man’s cognition. The only escape from this danger of the subjectification of reality is, unjustly criticized, Kant’s acknowledgment of Ding an sich. In the area of practical philosophy, Kant’s ethics of categorical imperative, of good will and the fact of freedom, is an interesting but indefensible project of formal and autonomic ethics that, unfortunately, due to its elitist conclusions cannot fulfil the task of teaching morality. In the light of development in cultural anthropology and hermeneutical philosophy of life, Kant’s position needs to be significantly updated.
Keywords: transcendental logic, metaphysics, imperative ethics, neo-Kantianism, hermeneutical philosophy

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