La métaphore de la guerre et du tribunal dans la philosophie critique
Obviously, the way Kant uses the juridical metaphor in the CRP allows us to anticipate his developments on public law of the 1790s. But the primary aim of the juridical model in this work is to illustrate the difference between the dogmatic and the critical approaches of metaphysical questions. In fact, if the antagonism between both parties of the Antinomy leads to a resolution of conflict that resembles a war, whose outcome is always contingent, the critical resolution proposed by Kant proceeds on the contrary to a rigorous assessment of the origin of the conflict, just as a tribunal decides on the legitimacy of a claim. In this way, the metaphors of war (state of nature) and of lawsuit (rule of law) contribute to clarify the meaning of the distinction between the “apagogic” and the “ostensive” methods in philosophy, the latter requiring a proof that the juridical vocabulary designates as a “deduction”.
Kant Antinomy Deduction Right Apagogic/ostensive