Abstract

HERSZENBAUN, Miguel Alejandro. Illustrated Shades on the Critique of Pure Reason The Kantian Strategy Regarding the Problem of the German Enlightenment. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2016, vol.65, n.161, pp.23-42. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v65n161.43394.

This article seeks to show how the Critique of Pure Reason answers the fundamental problem of the German Enlightenment: the linkage between the authority of reason and faith. Kant seeks to rescue the intentions of the dogmatic rationalist -reconcile faith and reason- but rejects rationalism and its method. The "Antinomy of Pure Reason" and the "Discipline of Pure Reason" accomplish this strategy: the first shows that rationalism cannot justify faith by means of reason and clarifies the origin of this incapability; the second distances itself from the rationalist method using the proofs of the "Antinomy". This leaves room for a finite but critical reason, able to be reinstated to the place of authority that the Enlightenment has reserved for it.

Keywords : I. Kant; faith; enlightenment; rationalism.

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