nLab transcendental ideal

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Idea

The transcendental ideal is the embodiment of all predicative possibilities - Inbegriff aller Möglichkeiten - in Kant’s transcendental philosophy and as such it reconstructs the role of the concept of ‘ens perfectissimum’ in the ontological proof of the existence of god in the rational theology of Leibniz and Wolff.

Kant’s innovation with respect to the tradition is that he suspends existential import and substantiality of the concept and gives a thoroughly (meta)logical derivation instead which exhibits the functional role of the ideal as a ‘guideline’ in all reasoning.

This relocation of theology from ontology to logic proved to be consequential in the philosophy of the world age of the mature Schelling where it becomes a key concept (Hogrebe 1989), as well as (indirectly) on the overall architectonic structure of Hegel’s system as a self determination of the idea.

References

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