Summary
Davor Ljubimir: Kant's four questions
What can I know?
What should I do?
What can I hope for?
What is man?
The book is about an attempt to interpret the entirety of Kant's philosophizing in such a way as to expose what lies behind his works intended for the public, above all the three criticisms, from the horizon of his esoteric anthropological insights and smaller, seemingly unimportant works. Content-wise, the paper focuses on Kant's famous four questions, and in accordance with his instructions primarily on the fourth, "What is man?", into which, as he says, all the others can be "counted". By systematically performing this "accounting" of questions about knowledge, about action and about hope in the question about man, an attempt is made to offer an answer to the question of why the "building" of Kant's thought, organized by extremely complex and precise thinking, is exactly the way it is, and not different, and how its components are mutually connected. The result of such efforts is the presentation of Kant's philosophizing as a fear-filled, painful struggle with conditions that threaten human vitality and lead to the death of life: with essential disorientation, with indifference, with hopeless boredom.
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