Hegel’s Interpretation of Kant's Epistemology

Year 2013, Issue: 20 - Kaygı (20) 2013, 65 - 78, 15.04.2013

A. Çüçen

Abstract

Kant and previous philosophers in the modern philosophy have inquired into the limit of human knowledge, so the limitation of knowledge is the result of a basic view of the Critical philosophy. According to most of the modern philosophers, before one wants to attempt to know God, the essence of being, etc., he or she must first investigate the capacity of knowledge itself in order to see whether it is able to accomplish such an attempt.
Hegel criticizes this view in the Encyclopedia, section 10. He claims that the task to examine knowledge before using it is based on a false analogy with tools. If one does not want to fool oneself with words, it is easy to see that other instruments can be investigated and criticized without using them in the particular work for which they were designed. But the investigation of knowledge can only be performed by an act of knowledge.

Keywords

Hegel; Kant; Knowledge; Absolute; Empiricism; Synthetic A priori Judgment; Noumena

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