Abstract
In his orientation towards mathematics and in his conception of the role mathematics has to play in philosophical investigations Maimon follows in the great tradition of the seventeenth century represented by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, a line of thought of which Kant constitutes the last link. We have seen that Maimon reinterpreted various of Leibniz’ doctrines to suit them more to his critical bent by transforming metaphysical ideas conceived by Leibniz as transcendent entities into critical ideas, that is, as methodical principles. But in his attitude towards the place of mathematics and the role it has to play in metaphysical speculations and in epistemological investigations Maimon remained a true follower of Leibniz.
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Krit. Uni., p. 23.
Ibid., p. 24.
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Ibid.
TV., p. 285.
Ibid., pp. 283 f.
Ibid., pp. 151 f.
Ibid., p. 152.
Ibid., pp. 152 f.
Ibid., p. 406.
Ibid., p. 149.
Ibid., pp. 148 f.
Ibid., p. 150.
Ibid., p. 400.
Ibid., p. 406.
Ibid., p. 151.
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Cf. Kuntze, op. cit., p. 375, and Richard Kroner, Von Kant bis Hegel, I, 345.
Cf. Hugo Bergmann, “Salomon Maimons Philosophie der Mathematik,” Isis, No. 49, Vol. XVI2, p. 223, who refers to H. Weyl, Philosophie der Mathematik, p. 21.
It was published in 1832 as an appendix to a book of his father and had the title “Appendix scientiam spatii absolute veram exhibit.”
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Atlas, S. (1964). Philosophy and Mathematics. In: From Critical to Speculative Idealism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9106-7_11
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