Rousseau et Kant : à propos de la genèse de la théorie kantienne des idées
I examine in this article the scope of the thesis defended both by Dieter Henrich and Klaus Reich according to which Rousseau through his text De l’imitation théâtrale (1764) would have drawn Kant’s attention on the Platonic “Idea,” allowing him to solve among other things the problem of the criterion of the morally good (principium diiudicationis). I am thinking here of Paragraph 9 of the Dissertation of 1770. Kant will insist on the conceptual nature of the Idea and on its origin in reason, in order to remove the threat of mysticism.
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