DEL TO (¿TRASCENDENTAL?) AL NOSOTROS (¿INTRASCENDENTAL?) LA LECTURA DE KANT EN EL NEOKANTISMO CONTEMPORÁNEO

Résumé

Prompted, maybe, by Apel and Habermas’ reading of Kant («contemporary neokantism »), the author analyzes a passage that constitutes a contribution of Kant; namely, the passage from the «I» to the «us». The analysis of this step, although it evokes what goes from Kant to Herder and Hegel, focuses on situations such as the linguistic transformation of transcendental philosophy and Apel; the ideal community of communication, and real or sociohistoric communities; and the habermasian version of discourse consciousness. The interest of the author is to emphasize, despite the goodness of the linguistic turn, that what proves decisive is the doble step already found in Kant himself: i) from the I of the ‘pure aperception’ to the «us» of the ‘ends kingdom’, and ii) from ‘transcendental’ to ‘moral conscience’, basis of the existential irreducibility of the moral subject. The author inquires with regard to the passage from the «I» to the «us» what constitutes a contribution by Kant in this respect, perhaps relying on Apel and Habermas’ reading of Kant («contemporary neokantism»). The analysis of this step, although evoking what goes from Kant to Herder and Hegel, focuses on situations such the linguistic transformation of transcendental philosophy and Apel; the ideal community of communication, and real or sociohistoric communities; and the habermasian version of discourse consciousness. The interest of the author is to emphasize, despite the goodness of the linguistic turn, that what proves decisive is the doble step already found in Kant himself: i) from the I of the ‘pure aperception’ to the «us» of the ‘ends kingdom’, ii) from ‘transcendental’ to ‘moral conscience’, basis of the existential irreducibility of the moral subject.