The Kant Philosophy Between Material And Form

Form and material is considered as a pair of core concepts in Aristotle's philosophy. Form is the principle which can be integrated into logic language system while on the contrary material has a tendency which refuses to be integrated and classified. Then the competition between them that which one is more close to the substance almost composed the whole history of western philosophy. In modern philosophy, this conflict had evolved into the endeavor to integrate the quality of being with the quality of mind. Standing on the summit of modern philosophy, Kant put the reflection on reflection at the bottom of knowledge and integrated the material into form system step by step and eventually achieve the goal to establish the Prior Anthropology. The three "Critique"s have an inherent clue. Firstly, "Critique of Pure Reason" delimited the understanding. Secondly, "Critique of Practical Reason" delimited the rationality and then "Critique of Judgement" joined the above two "Critique"s together and eventually made the world as a whole retracted into the area of Prior Anthropology. Using the three "Critique"s as a clue, this thesis illustrates how Kant replaced the contemplation on the world as a whole with the research about Prior Anthropology under the tension of form and material and then he had not only established a complete Critique system, but also finished the mission that change the God promised world into the Man promised world. Kant is so imperative that even his ideology has incurred so much criticism from its birthday, such views has to be put forward on the metaphysic path he had cut out. The purpose of this thesis is hoping to bring some inspiration and endow some power to the future development of philosophy by tracking the Critique ideology of Kant.