Filozofija i drustvo 2015 Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages: 5-26
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1501005M
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Kant and the temptations of phantasy
Molnar Aleksandar (Filozofski fakultet, Beograd)
In the article the author concentrates on Immanuel Kant’s philosophical
musings on phantasy and its artistic products such as novels (Romane).
Although Kant was one of the first critics of the early German romanticist
endeavors to emancipate the force of phantasy from the domination of the
mind/reason, he was also incapable to resist the temptation to give phantasy
important role in the cognitive activities of man. Ultimately, phantasy was
crucial in Kant’s concept of aestheticised natural order of things (because
it leads man to perceive nature as beautiful as well as to begin „poetic
daydreaming“ about nature), but also in his concept of divine worldly order
of things after the end of history (because it enables men to be certain
about coming of God’s kingdom on Earth).
Keywords: Kant, romanticism, novel, phantasy, mind, reason, nature, God