APIE IMMANUELIO KANTO "PRAGMATINĘ" ANTROPOLOGIJĄ
ON THE IMMANUEL KANT’S “PRAGMATICAL” ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the Kantian question “what is the human being?” According to Kant, this is a fundamental question, however, not to philosophy “in scholastic sense” but to philosophy “in cosmic sense”. Therefore Kant’s anthropology is not “physiological anthropology” dealing with the study of what nature makes man” but “pragmatic anthropology” dealing with the study of “what man as a freely acting entity makes or can and should make of himself”. It is a transcendental discovery of the human being asking for the conditions of unity of all our thought or experience. According to Kant, this unity is “transcendental apperception” – the idea of “I think”. The “pragmatic” discovery of the human being of philosophy “in cosmic sense” is not a kind of discoursive reasoning. It is rather a meditative practice, the main task of which is the deepening of participation in one’s own “I think”.

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