Sueitis Su Ikikritine I. Kanto Filosofija Ap-Švietos Lietuvoje - Versijos Ir Kontroversijos
A Contact with a Pre-Critical Philosophy of I. Kant in Lithuania in the Period of the Enlightenment: Versions and Controversies

Summary/Abstract: The object of this article is to revise the creative heritage of Kazimieras Narbutas (Kazimierz Narbutt) - one of the most prominent thinkers of the initial period of the Enlightenment in Lithuania. The article attempts to check the opinion, which has penetrated our investigatory writings, that Nabutas dealt with the pre-critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. As it becomes clear from the revision of works of Narbutas, he had been dealing, not with the works of Kant, but with the works of German philosopher and theologian, Israel Gottlieb Canz. It was Canz, whom Narbutas questioned in dealing with basic ontological questions on the essence of the substance. Narbutas does not oppose philosophy and positive theology; he just attempts to define strictly the limits of their exposition. Philosophy is declined the rights to intervene in theology, into the area of faith, while theology is restrained from philosophical matters. Thus Narbutas has distanced himself from Canz, as well as from the other followers of theologian, Christen Wolff.

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