Kant führt in dem Werk einen neuartigen, später ›ontotheologisch‹ genannten Gottesbeweis, den er anschließend für die Verbesserung der Physikotheologie fruchtbar macht.

Bisher straflich vernachlassigt wurde Kants Theorie, dass die apriorischen Vorstellungen nicht angeboren sind, sondern durch die Erkenntniskrafte selber entwickelt werden. Dabei ist diese genetische Auffassung des Apriori von kaum zu uberschatzender Bedeutung: So gewinnt Kants beruhmte, zur kopernikanischen Wende fuhrende Frage von 1772, wie sich denn reine Begriffe auf Gegenstande beziehen konnen, erst vor diesem Hintergrund ihre Brisanz; aber auch die Ableitung der Kategorien und Ideen in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft ist das direkte Resultat von Kants neuer Theorie des (...) Apriori. Kant's theory that a priori concepts are not innate but are developed through cognitive power has been sorely neglected up to now, although this genetic conception of a priori can hardly be overestimated. Thus it is against this backdrop that Kants famous question of 1772, asking how pure concepts can refer to objects, which led to the Copernican Revolution, becomes highly explosive. However the deduction of categories and ideas in the Critique of Pure Reason is also the direct result of Kants new theory of a priori. (shrink)

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