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Kant’s Philosophy of Chemistry and Nietzsche’s Cosmology. Part II: Chemistry as a Science, the Alchemy of Economics, and Spiritual Gold
Continuing from Part One (see “Kantian Journal”, vol. 44, no. 3), this article reviews Kant’s dismissal of chemistry as a ‘proper’ science in light of his specific examples (instancing Stahl’s spagyric experiments, cinnabar, and gold) to argue that understanding Kant requires an historical hermeneutical approach to science. Close textual analysis of Kant’s writings is compared with ...
