解码康德:“先验哲学”与公理化方法

Decoding Kant:Transcendental Philosophy and the Axiomatic Method

康德把自己的哲学叫作“先验哲学”,其中隐含了其哲学与公理化方法的密切关系。康德对“先验”的刻意强调,暗示了他想按照几何学的公理化方法来建构其哲学体系的秘密。康德的时空概念、十二个(对)范畴,是他的认识论中的“原始概念”,对这些概念的阐释构成了康德先验哲学中的“定义”和“公理”。正是基于这些“定义”和“公理”,康德才建构了自己的“先验哲学”。

Kant called his philosophy transcendental philosophy,which implied the close relationship between his philosophy and the axiomatic method.Kant’s deliberate emphasis on transcendental hints at the secret of his desire to construct a philosophical system according to the axiomatic approach of geometry.Kant’s concept of space-time,the twelve(pairs of) categories,are the primordial concepts in his epistemology,and the interpretation of these concepts constitutes the definition and axioms in Kant’s transcendental philosophy.It is on the basis of these definitions and axioms that Kant constructed his own transcendental philosophy.