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Kant'ss ynthesis of empiricism and rationalism is oftenc onsidered to be one of his most important contributions to philosophy. In this article Ii nvestigate the reception of this synthesis in the late 1780s and early1790s.Ishow that duringt his earlyr eception Kant'sa ttempt at as ynthesis, and its empiricist side in particular,proved to be afailure whenitwas confronted with apowerful challengef rom the side of Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Salomon Maimon and Karl Leonhard Reinhold.This failure, Iargue, resulted in abreak within the Kantian movement itself between ar ationalist and an empiricist Kantianism. 1Asynthesis of rationalisma nd empiricism? Shouldo ne ask ag eneral philosophical audience about Immanuel Kant'sm ost importantp hilosophical contributions,o ne might expect to hear at least af ew obvious candidates. The first would almost certainlyb eh is famous categorical imperative.Agood second, however,would probablyb eh is synthesiso f' early modernr ationalism and empiricism'.T hisw ould hardlyc ome as as urprise to anyone. Is uspect thatt here are few introductory lectures on Kant'st heoretical philosophyinwhich this synthesis is not usedasaprime example of Kant'simportance to

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Author

Peter Sperber

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2015

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)