Kantici Spinozacilik

LERUSSI, NATALIA

Estambul

Congreso; II Spinozas Days; 2009

Istanbul Bilgi University

Although there is no evidence that Kant ever read any of Spinoza´s work in many occasions Kant refers to Spinoza´s philosophy in pejorative terms. All along his published work and also in his lectures, Kant criticises the philosophy of Spinoza in a very explicit and emphatic way. However, in some notes found in the Opus Postumum(OP) Spinoza´s name appears under new lights. In fact, we find there curious statements that assert, for example, that "the spirit of man is Spinoza´s God" or "the transcendental Idealism is Spinozism". In the following paper I show firstly that Kantian Spinozism is the result of a specific interpretation of Lichtenberg´s Spinoza. Kant would not be coming closed to (Lichtenberg´s) Spinoza´s thought literally speaking but to some kind of Spinozism that defends some kind of Kantian transcendental Idealism. That´s why Kantian Spinozism means, first of all, the invention of a Kantian Spinoza. Secondly I show that the strategy of inventing a Kantian Spinoza appears connected to a revision of the meaning of "Transcendental Idealism".This new concept of Transcendental Idealism linked to Spinoza´s name is not well clarified in OP but I assert that there are two direction towards which Kant was addressing the problem: the first one entails in the unification of God and practical reason, the second one that must be carefuly differentiated form the first one- involves the equivalence between human spirit and what Kant calls "Spinoza´s God".