Fractal Complexity in the System of Pure Reason. Unity, Truth and Perfection as structural Moments of transcendental Critique of Reason

Abstract

The specific manner in which transcendental philosophy deals with the complexity of reality has itself led to both sophisticated and complex systems whose unity are difficult to see. This applies in particular to Kant's philosophy, which not without reason has the reputation that its sub-areas are only loosely and at best externally held together by the Kantian method. I firmly oppose this view. Kant's philosophy is not characterized by the fact that it considers a system of contingent sub-areas of human existence, but rather by the strict development of a single principle. This principle is that of an apperceptive reason, i.e. an ultimate cause that must be grasped as such through itself. It is striking that each of the three critiques of reason pick up the thread of the investigation precisely where the previous one dropped it. In accordance with the synthetic-syllogistic structure of conceptual determination, reason thus passes through three interwoven lines of reasoning in order to be able to expose its own concept as the basis of all knowledge in the course of the third critique. However, Kant's efforts in the Opus Postumum point to the fact that there is still a gap here, as well as to the possibility of closing it.