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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Marren, Marina

Titel

“We Understand Him Even Better Than He Understood Himself”: Kant and Plato on Sensibility, God, and the Good

Ist Teil von

• Open Philosophy, 2024-01, Vol.7 (1), p.295-310

Ort / Verlag

De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Kant criticizes Plato for his interest in positing ideas that are entirely purified from any sensible elements, but which, nonetheless, exist in some supra-sensible reality. I argue that Kant’s criticism can be repositioned and even countered if, in our assessment of Plato, we assign a wider scope of significance and greater value to the senses. In order to lend focus to my article, I analyze Socrates’ presentation of what I translate as the “look of the Good” (τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέαν, 508e) in the so as to show the proximity between Plato and Kant on the question of sensibility. I also draw on the and extant literature that goes against the traditional view regarding the status of Ideas or Forms, including the Idea of the Good. I further discuss an affinity between the Good that is “beyond being” (ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐσίας, 509c) in the and Kant’s view of God as an Ideal of Reason. Given my articulation of the importance of the sensible dimension in Plato, there is a continuity between Kant and Plato on the question of the illegitimacy of certain ideas. In other words, in my reading (and contrary to Kant’s view of Plato), Kant does not so much overturn Plato’s metaphysics, but develops further the view that is already inscribed in Plato.