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Empiricism and Rationalism: The Failure of Kant’s Synthesis and its Consequences for German Philosophy around 1800
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Peter Sperber
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August 1, 2015
Abstract
Kant’s synthesis of empiricism and rationalism is often considered to be one of his most important contributions to philosophy. In this article I investigate the reception of this synthesis in the late 1780s and early 1790s. I show that during this early reception Kant’s attempt at a synthesis, and its empiricist side in particular, proved to be a failure when it was confronted with a powerful challenge from the side of Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Salomon Maimon and Karl Leonhard Reinhold. This failure, I argue, resulted in a break within the Kantian movement itself between a rationalist and an empiricist Kantianism
Published Online: 2015-8-1
Published in Print: 2015-7-1
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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