Substantia or Machina. Kant's double reading of Spinoza

SANDRA V. PALERMO

Giornale di Metafisica

Morcelliana

Lugar: Brescia; Año: 2020

0017-0372

Esta revista está indexada en los siguientes índices: AIDA - Ebsco Publishing - The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences ERIH PLUS - The Philosopher´s Index - Répertoire Bibliografique de la Philosophie.The purpose of this article is to show that there are in Kant at least two reading approaches to Spinoza´s philosophy: one we call "cosmological" and one we call "ontological". In virtue of the first reading, Spinoza can be traced, as Omri Boehm has said, in the antitheses of the antinomies of the first Critique, in virtue of the second reading instead, Spinoza cannot be identified as representative of the antithesis of the antinomies, because his philosophy denies any series and, hence, the very possibility of something like a "world". Paper´s focus concerns Kant´s concept of totality and seeks to show that Kant´s confrontation with Spinoza is essential to understand the critical notion of "das Ganze".