Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 45 No. 2, 2025.
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https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45204
Kant’s Critique of Ill Reason. Onomastic Distinctions and Dietetical Suggestions
Damir Smiljanić
; Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet, Dr Zorana Đinđića 2, RS–21000 Novi Sad
Sažetak
A year after the great jubilee – the 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s birth – it is time to take a more sober look at this great thinker. Kant is renowned as the founder of the critique of reason, a method of determining the limits of human knowledge. However, he also addressed situations in which a person literally “goes out of his mind”: cases of mental weakness and illness that threaten personal integrity. Kant addressed these problematic phenomena on several occasions, particularly considering the damage these diseases cause to human cognitive abilities. The author analyses Kant’s texts in which he addresses “maladies of the head” and recognises the characteristics of an entirely different critique, which aims to clarify and describe these diseases as precisely as possible. Describing the disease in this way can also have negative ethical implications, as demonstrated by the pejorative terms used to describe mentally ill people. Therefore, bearing in mind the need for ethically sensitive language, the author questions Kant’s discourse. At the same time, it is demonstrated that Kant’s consideration of mental disorders is also rooted in medicine due to the biographical fact that he suffered from hypochondria. The paper aims to explore how Kant dealt with “the other side of reason” (Hartmut and Gernot Böhme).
Ključne riječi
Immanuel Kant; mental disorders; onomastics; dietetics; hypochondria; criticism of language
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335472
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Datum izdavanja:
25.9.2025.
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