Constitution theory

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As a constitutional theories are based on Kant views referred that the empirical not look at reality as inherently existent outside world, but as something of consciousness constituted from a .

Constitutional theories try to research and classify the pure (a priori ) forms of our perception , which precede sense perception ( apperception ).

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant called his constitutional theory the "Copernican turn" in epistemology : "If perception had to be guided by the nature of objects, I don't see how one could know something a priori about it; but the object (as the object of the senses) according to the nature of our intuition, I can quite well imagine this possibility. " (from the introduction of the KrV)

Kant's constitutional theory was taken up by German idealism ( Schelling , Fichte , Hegel ) and developed further in various ways.

The evolutionary epistemology , which was designed by Karl Popper and Konrad Lorenz , tries to explain the human forms of perception following Darwin as the result of a long evolution.

Another constitutional theory is the structural model of the history of consciousness by Jean Gebser .

literature

• Malte Hossenfelder : Kant's Constitutional Theory and the Transcendental Deduction . de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1978.