Erminia, *you* didn't even understand that I fully understood the Italian
for Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique, not Critic) and gave you a brief
(slightly humorous) reply. I find your tone less "comical" than offensively
patronizing; one of the forms of ethical behaviour is to assume your vis-à
vis is not a complete idiot. Do you talk to students like this? It is
cringe-making. Yes, Kant also talks of "transzendentalen Ideen", (not
transcendent) but he specifically excludes ideological projections like,
e.g., what he calls the idea of the whole series of all future world
changes, as being arbitrary & not necessarily presumed by the reason. So
political ideology is out, your analogy doesn't work. See the end of the
1st book & the beginning of the 2nd of the Transcendentale Dialectik. There
are "transzendentale Ideen" that can be classified under unity of the
thinking subject, unity of the conditions of phenomena & the unity of the
condition of all objects of all thought, corresponding to psychology,
cosmology & theology, as conditions of thinking in these 3 classes. But of
course I'm open to persuasion if you can name chapter & verse of the German
edition, which I think you'll agree is the only acceptable one. Are you
there? Right.
Martin
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