Temporal Tensions. Life and Organism in Kant’s Critical Philosophy.

Authors

  • Juan Felipe Guevara Aristizabal Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2019.v7n2.04.p33

Keywords:

Life, organism, time, nature, freedom

Abstract

Beginning with the distinction introduced by Kant between life and organism, I propose to examine the link or transit between nature and freedom as the fulfilment and closure of the critical entreprise. Revisiting the concepts of life and organism at the different moments of the critical period in which they are developed, brings forth an occasion to think about time,or the tensions that take place with it, as an element that brings together nature and freedom. Instead of harmonizing or reuniting, the temporal tensions highlighted turn the pretended closure into an unstable part of the critiques, allowing a questioning of the notion of rational subject as the starting point of philosophy.

Recebido / Received: 2.6.2019.
Aprovado / Approved: 13.7.2019.

Author Biography

  • Juan Felipe Guevara Aristizabal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    PhD degree in Philosophy of Science at UNAM (Mexico, 2018), after having completed undergraduate studies in Biology at University of Antioquia (Colombia, 2010) and a Masters in Philosophy of Science at UNAM (Mexico 2014). He is author of The idea of teleonomy. The link between finality and biology (Universidad de Antioquia, 2011), as well as of some research articles. He has done research stays at Alberto Hurtado University (Chile) and York University (Canada). He currently teaches at the Philosophy Faculty, UNAM.

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Published

2020-01-14

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019)

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Temporal Tensions. Life and Organism in Kant’s Critical Philosophy. (2020). Kantian Studies (EK), 7(2), 33-54. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2019.v7n2.04.p33