’Neuer Anti-Kant oder Krüfung ber Kritik der reinen Vernunft nach den in Bolzano’s Wissenschaftslehre niebergelegten Begriffen / New Anti-Kant, Or Examination of the Critique of Pure Reason According to the Concepts Laid Down in Bolzano’s Theory of Science

Abstract

Even today, an examination of Kantian philosophy would not prove to be a belated endeavour. Two different editions of Kant’s works* have appeared in just the past few years, which amply testifies to the interest one still takes in the philosophical research of this thinker. Kant is not a forsaken celebrity history would have now consigned to oblivion. He still counts a not insignificant number of disciples who at least in part applaud his views. His principles have provided the basis for many of the subsequent philosophical creations. Many of his most distinctive doctrines have passed into the new systems and blend into them to such an extent that it is not an error to say that they permeate contemporary philosophy. That is why Hartenstein can write (in the Preface to the new edition of Kant’s Works, viii):

He (Kant) has the fortune … that subsequent systems are for the most part developments of seeds that can be more or less determinately demonstrated in his writings, even if from time to time inner deformations are concealed by the illusion of a luxurious abundance. Fichte’s idealism, which rests exclusively on the pure concept of the Ich; Schelling’s older identity-theory, which makes intellectual intuition the source of knowledge; Hegel’s dialectic; Herbart’s monadology, which is grounded on the concept of being as absolute positing and on the recognition of the given; notwithstanding the peculiarities of each of these thinkers, all these things bring to mind thoughts, questions, and problems that Kant either first moved clearly into the light of philosophical consideration, or without allowing them the least applicability for human thinking, designated them as possible sources of cognition for other intelligences, or finally held them as essential and necessary corrections of deeply rooted errors.