Meillassoux’s acosic ontology and the significance of Kantian philosophy
Zaida Olvera Granados
Published 2023-09-01
Keywords
- Thing,
- Reason,
- Absolute,
- Creatio ex nihilo
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Abstract
In this presentation, I aim to briefly outline the reasons why I consider Meillassoux’s rejection of the entire Kantian philosophy to be tantamount to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. By rejecting Kantian philosophy wholesale, the author loses sight of the fact that the absolute to which new realism or speculative realism aspires can be exemplified by Kant’s very concept of reason. I shall argue that Kantian reason, whilst not based on a mathematical model of explanation but rather a biological one, offers a successful example of what, from the perspective of Meillassoux’s ontology, might be called ‘pure facticity’. I consider that some of Meillassoux’s positions allow us to return to Kantian philosophy in order to interpret the concept of reason in the light of the concept of the event.
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