Contemporary Wisdom

Fries’ Psychological interpretation of Kant

Document Type : Biannual Journal

Author

mehdi moin zadeh

Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science department, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies,

Abstract
Abstract
From the second year after the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason, the empiricist-psychological interpretation of it began; the first collection of these interpretations was known as the Guttingen review. This psychological -empiricist approach was developed by Fries, Herbart and Benke with more intensity in the last decade of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.  Meanwhile, Fries’ role in designing and promoting the psychological interpretation of Kant is much more prominent. Psychological interpretation has a special significance since it has prepared the ground for the emergence of important trends- such as naturalism, materialism, psychologism, and positivism- in the second half of the nineteenth century and the twenty-first century. However this significant approach usually is neglected due to the dominance of new-Hegelian narrations of history of philosophy- which instead of psychological interpretation, endorse the interpretive tradition of the transcendental idealism of Kant. Considering that Kant philosophy has revived in the latter decades of twenty-first century, particularly after the publication of Strawson’s the bounds of sense in 1975, it is needed to address this interpretive approach and its prominent figure, i.e. Fries.

Keywords

Kant
Fries’ Psychological interpretation
 
 
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Contemporary Wisdom
Volume 7, Issue 3
November 2016
Pages 39-59

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