It is very true, Kant was a grat thinker, however nowedays, who takes him at faxe value? Maybe Chomsky, but he himself is an apologist. Let’s face it, Kant’s only objective success was a rationalized version of the Godlen Rule. His synthetic a-priori suffwred the same logical fate as Hegel’s ultra rationalism, synthesis is not possible. Can an ball be red and green all over? The reduction leads to a semantic difficulty of trying to determine th use of ‘all over’. By trying to connect Descrtes’s doubt with
the great pursuasive power of empirical knowledge, he did not deny the existence of inherent knowledge, he categorically removed it from the realm of the new, coming science. In fact, he resurrected dualism in a new form.
Again, for neo-Kantians, it works like a charm, because it implies hidden meanings related to historicity and evolutionary successin of ideas. This presupposes the inviolability of conceptual truths.
The modern world for these die hards isbased on aesthetic idelas of immutable perfection of forms, and resurrects an equally inviolate Platonic scheme of
evolutionary suceeding formal reach toward perfection. Perfection ad summum possesses axiomatic self referencial attributes toward the Summum, God Himself, and the guarantee of this is based on belief in the ultra self refereintoal ideal unto Himself. It implies total reflexibility ofm self.
That God was thus estranged from Himself, succeeds in Nietzche.
The final arbitermismof coursem the will to believe on the neccesity to sustain ideal forms of apprehending perfection, and this is based on an either or logical proposition: , the question becoming, how did thesemforms arise, ifnotmoutof the nether world ofmthe huan experience? He could not possibly have risen itthroughn himself, butonly through a self higher then Him, through an apothesis of himself to an ideal perfection of himself , in His Image. This was the origin of the self conception of the image, following Narcissus’ hallucionatory self image, which caused his punishment.
I do believe Kant is very great to sustain this aesthetic tension, but others dealt with it more formadibly, and anywone post Decartes would try it. Among the existentialists, Heidegger, Husserl, were the forerunners in metaphysics, and Nietzche and Kierkegaard and Sartre putting a more lyrical interpretation on it.