Andra Rubeņa un dažu citu filozofu kritiskās piezīmes par Imanuela Kanta praktisko filozofiju

Abstract

The article focuses on critical remarks made by acknowledged Latvian philosophers on the practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The levels of criticism vary. One of the authors does not criticise Kant's philosophy, but gives an exact description of his teaching. Some other authors show the weaknesses of this philosophy, but Peteris Zalite has openly criticised Kant's teaching of freedom in his doctoral thesis. This article looks in detail at what was written in this regard by Larisa Chuhina (1913-2002) and Andris Rubenis (1951-2017), as well as provides analysis of Kant's work on the grounds of “Metaphysics of virtues” (1785), “Criticism of the practical mind” (1788) and “Metaphysics of virtues” (1797). At the end of the article, the author turns to I. Kant's teaching on the relationship between theoretical and practical minds. The author does not agree with the idea that the theoretical mind and the practical mind are actually the same. The structures of the practical mind include free will, the moral rule, the categorising imperatives, the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul. The author of this article strives to prove that in the human psyche the forms of the practical mind are more strongly anchored than the forms of the theoretical mind, and consequently no equal sign can be put between them.