Document Type : Research Paper
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The ideas of self, God, and universe are supposed to do a regulative role in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. These ideas are applied to unify the phenomena fragments through space and time as well as the categories applied by the Understanding. We demonstrate that, in Critique of Practical Reason, Kant introduces the subject in constitutional and non-theoretical way referring to the transcendental free will. The ideas of God and universe are also presented in a reflective and subjective way in Critique of the Power of Judgment. Thus, a transcendental consistency can be observed among the three critiques. However, a controversial question is raised in the third critique, ‘the sublime’, which cannot be resolved within the Kantian system. Kant tries to attribute the sublime to the ideas of reason, but the experience of the sublime is an extraordinary chaotic element that threatens his entire system and paves the way to deconstructive interpretations of people like Derrida or Deleuze. In this way, a postmodernist and eccentric interpretation of the Kantian system appears.
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