Cognitive criticism
The critique of knowledge is the sub-discipline of philosophy that goes back to Immanuel Kant and deals with the basic requirements, possibilities and limits of human knowledge . It is part of the broader epistemology ( epistemology ). This is the more general term or the more general teaching of human knowledge, which can also mean an individual scientific investigation of the occurrence or the course of the cognitive activity. Criticism of knowledge is not directed towards the question of what we know, but how we know.
According to Kant, it is a matter of critical epistemology not to grasp the “inexhaustible” variety of “given objects”, but rather to represent the unity of the fundamental conditions that are necessary to help determine the knowledge of objects. The return to the conditions in the consciousness of every human being as a subject is what Kant called transcendental philosophy .
“If intuition had to be guided by the nature of the objects, then I do not see how one can know anything about it a priori ; but if the object (as the object of the senses) depends on the nature of our intuition, I can imagine this possibility quite well. "
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- ↑ a b Immanuel Kant : Critique of Pure Reason. Published by Wilhelm Weischedel. 1st edition. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1995, Volume 1, stw, text and pages identical to Volume III work edition, ISBN 3-518-09327-4 ; (a) p. 63, concordance of the Kant editions B 26 - on “the nature of things, which is inexhaustible”; (b) p. 25, concordance of the Kant editions B XVI f. - to “ experience ” as “given objects”.
- ↑ Heinrich Rathke : Knowledge , number 1. In: Systematic Handlexikon zu Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Meiner, Philosophische Bibliothek 37b, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-7873-1048-7 , p. 67.
- ↑ Uwe Schultz: Immanuel Kant . Testimonials and photo documents. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1965, Rowohlt's monographs, p. 98.