Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
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description: Con-Textos Kantianos aims at boosting the philological and critical research on Kant studies, considering also actual discussions on Kant's thought. That is the reason why its heading hints to contexts with texts. Kant shall be the main focus of the journal, which will tackle subjects such as Moral and Political Philosophy, History of Ideas, Philosophy of Right, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Education, Aesthetics, Anthropology, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Human Rights, Social Policy, Theories of Justice and Cosmopolitanism. CTK aims at being an international and cosmopolitan inspired e-journal, where the Spanish language receives equal acknowledgement as English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese do. The main purposes of the journal are to enhance the development of a Kant scholarship network at the Latin American scale and to tighten the links between research groups already consolidated in different countries and languages. The editorial team, which gathers Kant scholars from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Spain, will certainly ease the fulfillment of both purposes
publisher: Ediciones Complutense
language: it
publication name: Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
issn: 2386-7655
items: A esfera pública entre a Aufklärung e o antagonismo - a prioridade da filosofia social de Kant na reflexão sobre a história
items: Kantian Theodicy Reconsidered
items: The Artistic is Political. Review of: Susan Meld Shell, The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant’s Critique of Taste. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2022. ISBN 9781009011808
items: Interview with Luca Fonnesu
items: Kant and the Puzzle of Respect: a Volitional Account of Achtung. Review of: Jorg Nöller, Kant on Respect (Achtung), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 66 pp.ISBN 978-1-009-51107-0.
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/108811
items: Las posibilidad de la historia de la filosofía: de un nuevo Kant. Reseña de: Macarena Marey, Voluntad omnilateral y finitud de la tierra, La Cebra, Buenos Aires, 2020, 335 pp.
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/108231
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/108165
items: Belief, Sincerity, and Certainty in Kant’s “Theodicy” Essay
items: Reconsidering Kant’s Copernican Revolution: From Synthetic A Priori Knowledge to the Metaphysical Status of the Noumenon
items: Kant's Political Theodicy
items: El principio trascendental de la razón y la necesidad de la naturaleza en el Apéndice de la Dialéctica trascendental
items: On Artistic and Moral Wisdom in the Theodicy
items: Theodicy and Honesty
items: Kant's Alleged Ambiguity Toward Leibniz: Revisiting the Critique of Dogmatism
items: Schematic Mediation in the Critique of Pure Reason: Synthesis of Imagination and Schematism
items: «Una fortaleza imbatida a espaldas del nuevo frente» Una nota sobre la doctrina de las facultades cognoscitivas, la crítica de Salomon Maimon y la réplica de Kant
items: Theodicy and the pre-Critical Kant
items: The Power of Illusion. Disgust and Representability in Moses Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics
items: Kant and Mendelssohn about Idealism
items: El sesgo hacia la dependencia: mujeres y ciudadanía pasiva en la Doctrina del Derecho.
items: Kant on Individual Noumena and the Limits of Discursive Understanding
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/102184
items: El interés cosmopolita del conocimiento en Kant
items: Situated universals (visions from the Third World)
items: Kant, la Comisión europea y la Unidad de la razón
items: The Role and Scope of Intuition (Anschauung) in Kant Transcendental Philosophy
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/103196
items: "O homem é a única criatura que tem de ser educada". Sobre a relação entre a educação e a filosofia da História kantianas

A esfera pública entre a Aufklärung e o antagonismo - a prioridade da filosofia social de Kant na reflexão sobre a história
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description: Neste trabalho, procurarei explicitar qual a relação entre as caracterizações substancialmente distintas da esfera pública efetuadas por Kant. Nos escritos sobre a Ilustração é enfatizada a componente produtiva deste espaço e são identificadas as condições que permitem fomentar um progresso social e político. Por outro lado, nos opúsculos sobre a ideia de uma história universal, é antes enfatizada a sua dinâmica antagónica. À primeira vista, a história teleológica segundo um plano de natureza parece relegar para segundo plano o papel da esfera pública e do uso público da razão. Porém, dado o estatuto epistémico da filosofia da história, procurarei evidenciar que, pelo contrário, esta ideia regulativa apenas possui significância filosófica devido aos efeitos da sua difusão pública. Assim, aquilo que motivou a elaboração de uma filosofia a história foi antes o potencial político do pensamento público e, como tal, a teleologia da história é secundária face à conceção da esfera pública.
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creator: Bernardo Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2024-07-16
publication date: 2024-07-16
starting page: 197
ending page: 208
doi: 10.5209/kant.91620

Kantian Theodicy Reconsidered
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description: Kantian Theodicy Reconsidered
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creator: Pablo Muchnik
creator: Courtney Fugate
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 5
ending page: 7
doi: 10.5209/kant.109789

The Artistic is Political. Review of: Susan Meld Shell, The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant’s Critique of Taste. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2022. ISBN 9781009011808
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Kate Moran
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 231
ending page: 233
doi: 10.5209/kant.109713

Interview with Luca Fonnesu
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description: Interview with Luca Fonnesu, conducted by Sandra V. Palermo, in which the Italian philosopher discusses how his philosophical research has evolved since his university days, what the philosophical and political climate was like during his formative years, and how his philosophical interests intersected with Kantian thought. The interview also discusses Kant’s importance for contemporary moral philosophy and epistemology, the role of philosophical societies and the relationship between philosophy and history of philosophy.
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creator: Luca Fonnesu
creator: Sandra V.
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 1
ending page: 4
doi: 10.5209/kant.109060

Kant and the Puzzle of Respect: a Volitional Account of Achtung. Review of: Jorg Nöller, Kant on Respect (Achtung), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 66 pp.ISBN 978-1-009-51107-0.
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Angelo Rigolli
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
doi: 10.5209/kant.109034

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/108811
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title: Between Derivation and Independence: Testing the Moral Roots of Kantian Right. Review of: Brecher, Martin & Hirsch Philipp-Alexander (eds.), Law and Morality in Kant. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2026, 342 pp. ISBN: 9781009291996.
subject: Reviews
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creator: Inês Pinheiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 225
ending page: 229
doi: 10.5209/kant.108811

Las posibilidad de la historia de la filosofía: de un nuevo Kant. Reseña de: Macarena Marey, Voluntad omnilateral y finitud de la tierra, La Cebra, Buenos Aires, 2020, 335 pp.
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Natalia Strok
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 213
ending page: 215
doi: 10.5209/kant.108403

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/108231
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title: We Need Ideas Like Kant's for the Climate Crisis. Review of: Zachary Vereb, Kant and Environmental Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative ofSustainability. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 274 pp. ISBN: 9781009664921
subject: Reviews
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creator: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 207
ending page: 210
doi: 10.5209/kant.108231

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/108165
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title: Between formal wrongs and fatal truths. Kant’s defense of truthfulness as a perfect duty. Review of: Jens Timmermann, Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 216 pp.
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creator: Carmen Sánchez Polo
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 211
ending page: 212
doi: 10.5209/kant.108165

Belief, Sincerity, and Certainty in Kant’s “Theodicy” Essay
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description: In this brief paper I offer an interpretation of what “sincerity” and “certainty” mean in the context of Kant’s discussion of the story of Job in the “Theodicy” essay. I argue that, for Kant, the encounter with evil ideally leads various commitments to become reflective.
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creator: Andrew Chignell
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 79
ending page: 86
doi: 10.5209/kant.107843

Reconsidering Kant’s Copernican Revolution: From Synthetic A Priori Knowledge to the Metaphysical Status of the Noumenon
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description: This paper critically examines Michael J. Olson’s interpretation of Kant’s Copernican Revolution as a transformation of the object of metaphysics into synthetic a priori knowledge with a twofold structure. While granting Olson’s insight that the Copernican Revolution is not merely a perspectival reversal but a substantive reconfiguration of metaphysics modeled on the methodological revolutions in mathematics and physics, I argue that his account remains incomplete. In particular, Olson’s interpretation risks reducing Kant’s critical project to an epistemological enterprise. By focusing on Kant’s phenomenon–noumenon distinction, I show that transcendental idealism involves unavoidable metaphysical commitments that cannot be captured solely in terms of synthetic a priori knowledge. Although noumena are not objects of knowledge, they function as necessary limiting concepts and as the metaphysical ground of appearances. Consequently, Kant’s Copernican Revolution should be understood as a rearticulation rather than a replacement of metaphysics.
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creator: Burak Öztürk
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
doi: 10.5209/kant.106962

Kant's Political Theodicy
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description: Scholarship on Kant’s religious writings commonly diverges on two related issues: the theological weight and meaning of his endorsement of religious faith, and the apparent inconsistency between his earlier and later, seemingly less secular, treatments of the subject. The questions raised by these disputes are not only theoretical; for at stake is whether in Kant’s considered view a just political community is ultimately sustainable without affirmative theological commitments of some kind.Kant’s brief essay “On the Failure of All Philosophic Efforts at Theodicy” opens a promising window on such questions. It is thematically continuous with the Critique of Judgment, published one year earlier, that itself ends with an implicit proof of the impossibility of theodicy understood as a theoretical justification of God’s moral wisdom based on what experience of the world teaches. [8:255] At the same time, Kant’s essay also differs from the Critique of Judgment in in a number of crucial ways that partly reflect Kant’s darkening assessment of his political circumstances as ones requiring new means of public enlightenment on the crucial question of the true basis of religious faith, as reflected in subsequent religious writings beginning with Religion within the Boundaries of Bare Reason. One striking feature of that change is the replacement of sincerity, or honesty before the bar of conscience, with conscientiousness, or striving to be honest, as the highest goal of moral aspiration, and of indulgence of the inclinations through self-deception as the ultimate source of human evil. Another is conceptual room for something like grace in the religious sense.
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creator: Susan Meld Shell
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 39
ending page: 49
doi: 10.5209/kant.105985

El principio trascendental de la razón y la necesidad de la naturaleza en el Apéndice de la Dialéctica trascendental
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description: este trabajo presenta una propuesta original de lo que, en la literatura secundaria, se ha denominado la ‘teoría de la necesitación’. Esta teoría, por un lado, defiende la necesidad de las leyes particulares de la naturaleza a partir de una consideración metafísica que sostiene que las leyes se derivan de las naturalezas de las cosas; por otro lado, sostiene que la necesidad de las leyes particulares no es cognoscible para los seres humanos. En el artículo, argumento que esto último es insatisfactorio y propongo enmendar la tesis epistémica, señalando que por medio del principio trascendental de la razón comprendemos los fundamentos metafísicos de la naturaleza y propongo una solución a un cuestionamiento escéptico que no ha sido atendido por sus defensores sobre la unidad sistemática y las clasificaciones de la naturaleza.
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creator: Montserrat Rodríguez Hernández
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 195
ending page: 205
doi: 10.5209/kant.106657

On Artistic and Moral Wisdom in the Theodicy
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description: This essay looks at a section of Kant’s ‘On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy’, 8: 263-65, in which he makes two distinctions: first, that between artistic and moral wisdom, and second, that between doctrinal and authentic theodicy. The essay defends Kant’s vindication of Providence from a practical point of view. Kant argues that all the philosophical attempts at theodicy fail, but we can continue to hold onto the faith that the world is wisely governed if we restrict ourselves to moral, as opposed to artistic, wisdom and to authentic, as opposed to doctrinal, theodicy. Kant’s key move is negative, that the workings of the highest wisdom are beyond our experience and so beyond our insight; but where there is no theoretical veto, the practical interest prevails. The essay considers what this priority of the practical amounts to. Kant uses the geographical metaphor of ‘domains’ and argues that Reason, which has both theoretical and practical employments, has an interest in extending its territory, which requires theoretical reason to accept existence claims needed by practical reason even though these claims cannot be legitimated by theoretical reason from its own insight. The ‘authentic’ theodicy is God’s declaration within the practical employment of reason that there is a wisdom behind the creation and maintenance of the universe even though it is inscrutable to us and hidden.
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creator: John Hare
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 51
ending page: 59
doi: 10.5209/kant.104586

Theodicy and Honesty
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description: This study examines Immanuel Kant’s 1791 essay on theodicy as a legal proceeding before the “court of reason,” where divine justice is assessed through rational inquiry rather than doctrinal authority. It explores the political context of the essay, Kant’s interpretation of nature, and the role of the Book of Job as a model of sincere religious faith. The study also considers the duties of theologians and clergy and reflects on the essay’s continuing relevance for issues related to religion, morality, and the problem of evil.
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creator: Allen W. Wood
creator: Ruth Norman Halls
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 31
ending page: 37
doi: 10.5209/kant.105858

Kant's Alleged Ambiguity Toward Leibniz: Revisiting the Critique of Dogmatism
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description: This paper discusses Kant’s critique of Leibniz, especially in the Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection in the Critique of Pure Reason. Although Kant’s early criticism suggests an identification of Leibniz with Wolffian dogmatism, later texts reveal a more nuanced attitude, distinguishing between Leibniz’s own metaphysics and its early reception. Examining the four central pairs of concepts of reflection–identity/diversity, agreement/opposition, inner/outer, and matter/form, this article shows that what Kant primarily criticizes is a form of Leibnizianism popularized through Wolff, rather than Leibniz himself. Drawing on Leibniz’s writings, it is shown that the alleged ambiguity in Kant’s position toward Leibniz reflects a certain development in his thought: namely, a movement from critique toward partial retrieval. This study is relevant not only to the question of Leibniz’s reception in the eighteenth century, but also to understanding Kant’s relationship to the rationalist tradition, which he sought both to overcome and to preserve.
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creator: José Antonio Gutiérrez-García
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 107
ending page: 116
doi: 10.5209/kant.105535

Schematic Mediation in the Critique of Pure Reason: Synthesis of Imagination and Schematism
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description: My aim in this article is to propose an interpretation of the schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding, in order to elucidate the relation between schematism and the a priori synthesis of imagination. The guiding questions may be formulated as follows: What exactly does Kant mean when he claims that the “schema is a product of the imagination”? What is the relation between this statement and the one in §10, according to which synthesis is an effect of imagination, or the one in the B Deduction, according to which imagination performs a transcendental synthesis? I defend the thesis that, insofar as imagination determines time a priori according to the unity of the categories, it translates each of them into a temporal language (or a language of transcendental imagination), that is, it gives sense to the category in the determination of the object when it is thought according to temporal patterns.
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creator: Eliakim Ferreira Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 127
ending page: 138
doi: 10.5209/kant.105451

«Una fortaleza imbatida a espaldas del nuevo frente» Una nota sobre la doctrina de las facultades cognoscitivas, la crítica de Salomon Maimon y la réplica de Kant
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description: El presente escrito aborda la doctrina kantiana de la heterogeneidad de las facultades cognoscitivas y de los tipos específicos de representación a partir de la crítica a la misma por parte de Salomon Maimon en su Ensayo sobre la filosofía transcendental. Dicha crítica se presenta como rehabilitación de la teoría racionalista prekantiana de la Metafísica escolar alemana, a la vez que como anticipación de la tendencia especulativa característica del incipiente pensamiento postkantiano. Se destaca la vindicación por parte del filósofo de Königsberg de una dualidad de los elementos implicados en el conocimiento humano y en la constitución a priori de la experiencia atendiendo a su defensa de dicha doctrina frente a los ataques de Maimon, lo que asimismo sirve como una suerte de auto-demarcación histórico-filosófica por parte de Kant, tanto frente a la tradición racionalista contra la que se vuelve críticamente su pensamiento, como frente a aquellos ensayos de reformulación y superación de su doctrina que confluyeron en la irrupción del Idealismo alemán. Como motivo fundamental de la oposición de Kant a una y otra propuestas filosóficas se quiere apuntar su compromiso con el pensamiento de la finitud del conocimiento humano que es, a su vez, la del propio sujeto cognoscente
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creator: José M. García Gómez del Valle
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 151
ending page: 158
doi: 10.5209/kant.105918

Theodicy and the pre-Critical Kant
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description: This paper rests on my claim elsewhere (see Huxford, 2020) that Kant was concerned with the fundamentals of theodicy throughout his career and not just in the short 1791 essay devoted to the subject. It sets out Kant’s positions, developed in the period before the publication of his first Critique, regarding these fundamentals, namely God’s existence, the nature of evil and the reality of free will. Some of these positions were maintained through Kant’s career, others were either present only in embryonic form or abandoned altogether. Three issues dominate. First, Kant downgraded physical evil to natural harm. Second, evil was ontologically real being a negative value on the scale of goodness. Third, Kant continued to advance theoretical theodicies after the publication of his first Critique thus leaving a serious disconnect when his work is viewed in toto. I regard Kant’s thought on these fundamentals to be exploratory. So this paper does not attempt to pull his thoughts together into pre-Critical theodical “system”, although elements of such can be discerned.
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creator: George Huxford
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2026-07-16
publication date: 2026-07-16
starting page: 9
ending page: 18
doi: 10.5209/kant.105716

The Power of Illusion. Disgust and Representability in Moses Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics
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description: In the context of the emergence of aesthetics as an autonomous discipline in mid-eighteenth-century Germany, Moses Mendelssohn was one of the leading voices in the development of a new theory of sentiments and representation. In this context, Mendelssohn understood the need to delineate the limits of aesthetic representation and addressed the issue through an in-depth study of sentiments. In this article, I propose a study of the category of disgust in Mendelssohn's aesthetics, starting from his theory of aesthetic illusion. Disgust is, in fact, a feeling that cannot be reduced to the illusion created by the work of art but always refers to reality. To this end, I will refer mainly to the 82nd Literaturbrief, in which Mendelssohn expounds his study of disgust, and secondly to the Rhapsody as a text that reveals the need to deepen the theory of aesthetic illusion in light of the limits indicated through disgust. Finally, an aesthetic paradigm will emerge, which is also relevant to the contemporary debate on the possibilities of aesthetic representation
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creator: Serena Feloj
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 95
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doi: 10.5209/kant.104350

Kant and Mendelssohn about Idealism
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description: This paper aims to reconstruct Kant’s Refutation of Idealism as a successful world-directed transcendental argument against Mendelssohn’s “problematic idealism.” Mendelssohn’s problematic idealism arises from both a metaphysical and an epistemological doctrine that has an undeniable Cartesian root. Metaphysically, he assumes what we may call a “commonsense realist” view: that appearances outside our mind in space are, in themselves, material in nature, just as appearances within our mind are, in themselves, mental in nature (a position he refers to as “dualism”). Epistemologically, Mendelssohn holds that there is a fundamental hiatus between the material and mental worlds since the inference from our internal representations to the purported external material things they supposedly copy is, at best, problematic—this is what we refer to as “indirect realism.” Kant’s Refutation challenges both aspects of this view. On the epistemological level, Kant argues that we have direct awareness of the existence of external material things in space. On the metaphysical level, he claims that the ultimate nature of external things is neither material nor mental but consists instead of mind-independent things-in-themselves—noumena in the negative sense. However, Kant’s argument can only succeed as a world-directed transcendental argument if it is able to establish the truth of a persistent mind-independent thing in itself is a necessary condition for the conscious of our existence determined in time.
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creator: Roberto Horácio Sá Pereira
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date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 39
ending page: 51
doi: 10.5209/kant.100970

El sesgo hacia la dependencia: mujeres y ciudadanía pasiva en la Doctrina del Derecho.
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description: Kant distingue entre ciudadanos pasivos y activos, solo los primeros tienen derecho a votar. El problema es que Kant nunca justificó esta restricción, por lo que se han propuesto dos principales tesis para explicarla: la tesis de la corrupción, que considera que los ciudadanos pasivos carecen de juicio autónomo por lo que no pueden votar, y la tesis de la independencia interdependiente, que defiende que no es un problema de juicio, sino de su posición social: al depender de otros, no pueden ser co-legisladores. Este artículo sugiere una posición intermedia: la ciudadanía pasiva es una situación social de dependencia, pero también hay de que Kant desconfiaba de las capacidades de juicio de ciertos grupos que consideraba pasivos, como las mujeres. Defenderé que Kant analiza que la dependencia bajo el sesgo que los dependientes no pueden juzgar igual que los ciudadanos activos.
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creator: Jorge Omar Rodríguez Ramírez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 173
ending page: 182
doi: 10.5209/kant.101931

Kant on Individual Noumena and the Limits of Discursive Understanding
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description: It is relatively uncontroversial among scholars that, according to Kant, we cannot have determinate theoretical cognition of noumena. In this paper I shall argue that Kant’s account of the limits of human understanding allows us to draw a more radical conclusion: the very notion of an individual ‘intelligible being’ lies beyond human comprehension. I further suggest that this claim best conveys Kant’s ban of a positive use of the notion of noumenon. My investigation is guided by a question: Is it possible for concepts to successfully refer to an individual object in absence of sensible intuition? Or, to put it differently, is it possible to single out one or multiple individual noumena (and not mere concepts thereof) falling under a certain concept? I shall argue that, while we cannot exclude this possibility, we cannot comprehend (and thus admit) it either. My hope in this paper is thus to shed further light on Kant’s stance towards noumena.
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creator: Rodrigo Zanette de Araujo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 201
ending page: 212
doi: 10.5209/kant.102030

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/102184
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title: Kant on Freedom of the Will and the Development of Classical German Philosophy. Review of: Jörg Noller and John Walsh (translators and editors), Kant’s Early Critics on Freedom of the Will, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, XLVII + 315 pp., ISBN: 978-1-108-72967-3
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creator: Sebastian Cabezas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 259
ending page: 261
doi: 10.5209/kant.102184

El interés cosmopolita del conocimiento en Kant
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description: Este artículo llama la atención sobre el problema del sentido del conocimiento en Kant y la necesidad de una orientación del mismo. En esta perspectiva, toma en consideración la distinción kantiana entre el concepto escolar de la filosofía y el concepto cósmico de la misma. En la medida en que este concepto de filosofía defiende la orientación de los saberes hacia los fines morales o destino moral de la humanidad, se hace posible hablar de interés cosmopolita del conocimiento. La tesis del artículo es que dicho concepto de filosofía enlaza con la presencia de la noción de interés de la razón en Kant, siendo, además, consistente con la valoración, por Habermas, del interés puro práctico como un interés rector del conocimiento. Se estructura en dos puntos: 1. El interés de la razón práctica como interés movilizador e interés rector del conocimiento. 2. El concepto cósmico de la filosofía como expresión del interés cosmopolita del conocimiento y sentido de este.
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creator: Ana María Andaluz Romanillos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 135
ending page: 144
doi: 10.5209/kant.102500

Situated universals (visions from the Third World)
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description: This note is a version of an online talk I gave at the Workshop “Kant and Universalism from a Global Perspective”, October 25th 2024, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The event was organised by Marcus WIllaschek and Simon Rebohm. I took the chance to talk about the meaning of reading Kant in the Third World and my experience with the geopolitics of knowledge.
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creator: Macarena Marey
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 1
ending page: 6
doi: 10.5209/kant.102763

Kant, la Comisión europea y la Unidad de la razón
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description: El texto examina la decisión del Tratado de Roma (1957) de designar “Comisión” al órgano ejecutivo europeo, en sustitución de la “Alta Autoridad” de la CECA. Sostiene que esa elección nominal, aparentemente anodina y técnica, buscó evitar la apariencia de soberanía supranacional y, al mismo tiempo, instaló una gramática tecnocrática que despolitiza el poder. A la luz de Schmitt y Heidegger, se cuestiona la presunta neutralidad de la técnica y su capacidad para ocultar decisiones políticas bajo el velo de lo “técnico”. El hilo conductor es Kant: la distinción entre lo técnico-práctico y lo moral-práctico, y entre el “político moral” y el “moralista político”. Solo el primado de lo moral-práctico —de las leyes fundadas en la libertad y habiendo puesto entre paréntesis toda decisión con origen en las determinaciones naturales— puede limitar la política y orientar el Estado hacia la paz perpetua; la prudencia técnica produce gestión, astucia y simulación. Aplicado a Europa, llamar “Comisión” al ejecutivo habría sido una argucia que predispone a la Unión a la hegemonía de la técnica, debilitando la transparencia y la posibilidad de si quiera comprender el derecho cosmopolita como mandato. El ensayo concluye que esta deriva favorece el nihilismo y la desafección ciudadana: sin una rearticulación de la unidad de la razón y del lugar de la persona, la maquinaria institucional deviene engranaje sin horizonte.
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creator: Antonio Sánchez Domínguez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 159
ending page: 172
doi: 10.5209/kant.102843

The Role and Scope of Intuition (Anschauung) in Kant Transcendental Philosophy
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description: Kant's notion of intuition is usually associated with the a priori forms of space and time. In my paper, firstly, I want to demonstrate that intuition is very complex and has different functions for transcendental consciousness and plays an important role in each function, secondly, to substantiate the thesis that this concept is key to understanding the principle of Kant's transcendental philosophy, and thirdly, to point out some aporias or problems associated with this concept. Here are some difficulties: the relationship between pure intuition and empirical intuition is problematic, and the function of intuition and representation is difficult to distinguish unambiguously. In my article, I will consider several key points in Kant's philosophy for which the concept of intuition plays its own special function.
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creator: Alexei Krioukov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 193
ending page: 199
doi: 10.5209/kant.103165

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/it/article/view/103196
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title: Una defensa de Marcos Thisted sobre la unidad temática y la coherencia doctrinal de los Fortschritte der Metaphysik. Reseña de: Thisted, Marcos A. Kant y la metafísica crítica circa 1792-1795. Análisis e interpretación de los Fortschritte der Metaphysik. Cuadernos Kantianos, Revista de Estudios Kantianos, 2024, 200 páginas.
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creator: Noelia Eva Quiroga
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 257
ending page: 258
doi: 10.5209/kant.103196

"O homem é a única criatura que tem de ser educada". Sobre a relação entre a educação e a filosofia da História kantianas
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description: O presente ensaio visa mostrar o diálogo que as sugestões de Kant para a educação estabelecem com a sua filosofia da História. Tendo como ponto de partida a tese, presente nas Lições sobre pedagogia, segundo a qual «O homem é a única criatura que tem de ser educada», discute-se a sua justificação a partir do conceito kantiano de Bestimmung, de acordo com o qual a concretização da vocação do homem depende de um esforço permanente e de natureza intergeracional. Neste quadro de ideias, a questão da educação revela a sua importância em dois sentidos: tanto a educação que está intrinsecamente pressuposta no processo de desenvolvimento integral da razão e no progresso cultural e civilizacional, como a educação em sentido estrito, considerada enquanto mecanismo institucionalizado. Neste plano, vemos Kant reforçar a urgência de pensar um sistema educativo conforme aos propósitos do género humano e a refletir nas suas sugestões para a educação – e nas suas quatro tarefas: disciplinar, cultivar, civilizar e moralizar – o trajeto de maturação da razão nas suas várias fases.
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creator: Inês Beatriz Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 145
ending page: 157
doi: 10.5209/kant.103747