Political background of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Sensibility and Understanding

Abstract

The article continues an investigation advanced by the author who investigates the politician framework of Kant' s epistemology. The concrete question is about the real statute of the distinction between the faculties of the understanding and sensitivity. The question emerges from the idea that, since Kant, the understanding and the reason would have to share their noble tilles with sensitivity, until then despised for being considered the inferior faculty of knowledge. lndeed, according to Kant, reason (understanding) and sensitivity provide similar contributions of purity of origin and a priority in the validity