ON UNIVERSAL VALUE OF KANTIAN IDEA

Abstract

Author departs from Kant's distinction in his first Critique between concepts of understanding and concepts of reason. On the basis of this distinction a mere hipothetical question is posed: is it possible to claim that categories and ideas hold for Kant for all rational beings, that is, also for beings which presumambly exist on other planets, existence, which was for Kant and for most of his contemporaries a fact beyond doubt. Although according to Kant we cannot neither confirm nor deny such claim, it turns out, on closer examination of his conception of concept of reason, that the use of idea, because of its close connection with the aim, Zweck, is restricted to our world.