J. Horikx <jVERWIJDERDIThorikx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> reageerde als volgt:
>The beginning of the core of Kantian thinking (critical thinking that
>is) does not date from 1781 (his first critique) but from almost 10
>years earlier, Kants letter to Herz (1772). (*)
>In my opinion he there introduces his opinion about rationalism and
>empiricism although he doesn't use those terms there. He uses two
>different terms instead: "intellectus ectypus" and "intellectus arche-
>typus". I think that those two ways to contemplate the human intellect
>correspond to what can be regarded as (respectively) empiricism and
>rationalism.
>The following is the very heart of that letter, I think. I will try to
>translate it literally, though neither English nor German is my mother
>tongue (and I was very bad language scholar):
>"Ich frug mich nemlich selbst: auf welchem Grunde beruhet die
>Beziehung desienigen, was man in uns Vorstellung nennt, auf den
>Gegenstand?"
>"I asked myself, as a matter of fact: on what grounds rests the
>relation****p between what we (on one side) call representation
>and (on the other side) the object itself?"
>Then some line later he introduces this two types of intellect
>mentioned above (one can find the rest on the internet using those
>terms)
>--
>* In German: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/kant/briefe/70.html,
I do not
>have an english translation nor do I have a url of it.
I found an english translation of it (probable translated by experts,
so it is better dan my own tryings) and it is to be found at Google
books: http://tinyurl.com/5qsf53
My translated phrase is to be found
back at the bottem of page 117 (Kants numbering 130): "I asked my-
self namely, on what grounds rests the reference... (etc)"
The rest of the things I mentioned (intellectus ectypus et archetypus)
is to be found on the next page, around line 15.
Maybe someone appreciates this addition. This letter from Kant to Herz
is generally seen as the beginning of the 10 years of “silence” that
preceded the first Critique.
JH
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