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Theoretical systems in Kant: the control of experience by means maxims of reason

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Author(s):
Rodrigo Augusto Rosa
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Zeljko Loparic; Andréa Faggion; José Oscar de Almeida Marques
Advisor: Zeljko Loparic
Abstract

In Kant's philosophy the systematizers principles of knowledge are just regulatives. In this case, in opposition to constitutive principles of understanding which are objectives a priori, the egulative principles are just subjectives. In this work seek to show that despite of systematizers rinciples are subjtives maxims, such maxims are fundamental condition to rational elaboration of experience. In Kant the rationality implies in submission to reason postulates. In the case of natural science, the rational elaboration of experience must be in conformity with systematic requirements of theoretical postulate of reason. According by Kant, we do not assume the maxims of reason from of objective criteria, but by rational faith. So, the metaphysical principles of nature, which Kant elaborates to ensure the rationality of Newtonian Physics, are rational maxims that ensure (by means of rational faith) a research program, even before an ontology (AU)