The Real Target of Kant’s “Refutation”
... the existence of mind-independent things, showing that Kant’s main opponent is Mendelssohn’s idealism of Cartesian provenance. Finally, I support my reading by showing that Kant’s “Refutation” is doomed to fail against all forms of global scepticism, but is quite successful against Mendelssohn’s idealism.
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Almeida, G. A. de, 2013. Kant e a Refutação do Idealismo II. Analytica, 17(12), pp. 13-50.
Ameriks, K., 2003. Interpreting Kant’s Critiques....
I. Kant in the development of N. O. Lossky’s philosophical views: The case of a translation
... article considers the development of N. O. Lossky’s concept of intuitivism in the context of the translation of Kant’s works and revision of Kant’s epistemology. The development of Lossky as an independent philosopher required overcoming Kant’s scepticism, which was not consistent with the ideal-realist’s belief in the cognoscibility of transsubjective world given us in the original. The means necessary to overcome it determined the key characteristics of the new system of intuitivism, which ...
