Daniel Omar Perez Kantian Anthropology

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that Kant’s studies of anthropology are not an aggregate of isolated elements but rather that they correspond to a systematic order of knowledge established by the project of transcendental philosophy. This signifies that Anthropology is defined by an object (man) to which (in accord with a method) a conjunction of predicates are applied according to the order of their capabilities, temperaments, and dispositions. However, this comes to be as a result of the possibility of an a priori fundamental, synthetic proposition, specifically: “man is a citizen of the world.” This predication suits other synthetic propositions. Spoken propositions possess sui generis characteristics. They are not merely predications about empirical objects, but they do not ignore the particularities of experience’s observations; they do not refer directly to moral law, but they are not ignorant of it in the constitution of its object. Being thus, a systematic interpretation of place, definition, division, object, and method of Anthropology is herein proposed according to a logical-semantic analysis of its fundamental proposition. In order to arrive at this interpretation, we will first make use of the secondary literature available on this theme, we will second formulate with specificity our problem, and we will third develop the solution.