From Absolute Power of Consciousness Until the Forces of Cosmic Architectonics
“Transcendentalism,” denominating the philosophical approach that captured Occidental thought in the nineteenth century, is focused on enigmas of human cognition that have tantalized the human mind from the rise of Greek metaphysics onward. Conceptions of human cognition, of its origins, sources, modalities, its meaningfulness, and its objectives – seen as the essential factor of life – had varied...
Kant is, of course, the most famous transcendental philosopher – he was the founder and after Kant no one has accomplished anything similar to what he did. But how definite (absolutely finished and determinate) was his conception of the “transcendental” and what is it about Kant’s transcendental philosophy that provides his significance? In this paper I will try to provide some answer to these questions...
In 1929 the town of Davos in Switzerland was the seat of an international university seminar. The highlight of the seminar was an open auditoria meeting between the Neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer and the phenomenologist Martin Heidegger. The subject of the meeting: How to interpret Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In Davos and in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics Heidegger wants to demonstrate the Kantian...
Die von Husserl initiierte Phänomenologie wird gerade innerhalb des phänomenologischen Diskurses als Kulminationspunkt der Kantischen Tradition der Transzendentalphilosophie aufgefaßt. Eine eindringliche Analyse macht jedoch klar, daß Husserl die von Kant herausgearbeitete Verhältnisbestimmung von Subjektivität und Objektivität wirkungsmächtig umkehrt: anders als bei Kant übernimmt bei Husserl das...
In my paper, I want to reflect on the validity of Husserl’s claim to have renewed the idea of transcendental philosophy, by identifying a new transcendental “Arbeitsfeld”: constitution of reality by absolute, intentional consciousness. I will do this on the basis of his project to found the “Geisteswissenschaften”. In anti-naturalist vein, Husserl argued convincingly for the necessity of the human...