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A Study on the Development of Enlightenment Philosophy of Kant's Error Theory

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2022, (39), pp.85~102
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2022..39.005
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 28, 2022
  • Accepted : June 30, 2022
  • Published : June 30, 2022

LEE,JinWon 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

The problem of error in object recognition is not limited to the realm of simple epistemology, but requires us to act or attitude beyond it. This is a transition from the realm of knowledge to the realm of practice, and this structure is frequently discussed in Kant's philosophical system. Kant argued that object recognition is a concurrence of sensibility and intellect, the two sources of cognitive abilities, and that perception arises, and in the process, errors occur as 'sensibility influences the intellect unnoticed'. This is the core of Kant's theory of error, from which three propositions are derived: 'the inevitability of error', 'the structural identity of truth judgment and error judgment', and 'the impossibility of total error'. Through the first proposition, the structure and limitations of our cognitive subjectivity will be revealed more clearly, and through the second proposition, the modern characteristics of Kant's error theory will be revealed. Finally, through the third proposition, the foundation for expanding beyond the realm of simple individual error to the concept of universal human reason is laid. And the concept of universal human reason has a more important meaning in the Kant’s Philosophy of Enlightenment. This paper describes the meaning and process of the concept of error within the Kantian philosophical system, and attempts to demonstrate through what argumentation structure this concept develops to the core concept of the Philosophy of Enlightenment.

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