Abstract
In his Inaugural Dissertation De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis, Kant renders central the function of illusion as an integral part of a method for avoiding metaphysical errors, without therefore doing away with the possibility of a metaphysics at all. In this paper, my aim is to draw attention to three crucial points in the Dissertation that have significant theoretical continuity: 1) the preparatory character of the discipline presented in this work (also called "ontology") with respect to metaphysics, 2) the negative or elenctic function of the real use of the intellect, and 3) the fallacy of metaphysical subreption. Secondly, I want to point out the significant presence of subreption in thetheory of transcendental demonstrations given in the “Doctrine of Method” of the first Critique with the aim of providing a methodical discipline to the proofs of pure principles of the intellect or transcendental propositions.
Highlights
References to Kant’s works are to the volume and page number of the Akademie Ausgabe = AA
Kant renders central the function of illusion as an integral part
the preparatory character of the discipline presented in this work
Summary
In addition to the idea that sensibility and intellect could occupy qualitatively irreducible realms and that the great light could have led to a path towards criticism, there is another point of entry to Kant's famous 1770 work, De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis This involves, in particular, the project to achieve a metaphysical cognition of reality, a legacy left by Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, despite the fact that it excludes its transcendent scope[2]; it, renders central the function of illusion as an integral part of a method developed to avoid the mistakes caused by incorrectly applying sensitive conditions to the objects of reason. The Dissertatio reiterates the equation between conditions for intellectual knowledge and conditions for the real possibility of things; this thesis is the starting point from which Kant takes off to mold his theory on the errors of metaphysics
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