Imagination in Avicenna and Kant

• Autores: Allan Bäck
• Localización: Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía, ISSN-e 2007-8498, ISSN 0188-6649, Nº. 29, 2005 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Los comentadores árabes y latinos de Aristóteles), págs. 101-130
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • In comparing the views of Avicenna and Kant on the imagination, we find a striking congruence of doctrine. Kant¿s doctrines of the syntheses of the imagination in his Transcendental Deduction (both A and B) have remarkable similarities with Avicenna¿s views. For both Avicenna and Kant, the imagination serves to connect the phenomenal and the noumenal. At the least this comparison has the dual use of placing Kant¿s doctrines in the context of the Aristotelian tradition and of illuminating the modern significance of the thought of Avicenna. Since Kant¿s thought is more familiar to us than Avicenna¿s (although perhaps not as evident in itself), we can use Kant also to help us understand the claims of Avicenna. On the other hand, this comparison may help to support the claim that an understanding of Kant lies to a large extent in his medieval and post-medieval roots ¿just as Copernicus, in his own ¿Copernican revolution¿, was following certain earlier traditions.