Bridging the Gap of Kant’s ‘Historical Antinomy’

Southwest Philosophy Review 33 (1):215-223 (2017)
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Abstract

In his influential work on Kant and history, Yirmiyahu Yovel identifies a problem which he terms ‘the historical antinomy.’ The problem states that no possible mediation can take place between the atemporal realm of pure reason and the empirical realm of human history. In this paper, I aim to bridge this gap based on a two-aspect reading of the faculty of reason, and then proceed to show reason’s ability to apply transcendental ideas on empirical history for the sake of grasping a rational idea of history in a single, mediated process.

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José Luis Fernández
Fairfield University

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