OBSERVATIONS ON THE UNFOLDING OF THE DICHTUNGSVERMÖGEN : ITS PRESENCE AND CONSEQUENCE IN THE FIRST EDITION OF KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

This work aims to analyze the action of the poetic or inventive imaginative faculty ( Dichtungsverm & otilde;gen ) in the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories , in the first edition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781), and to examine the emphasis that this author attributes to it in his Anthropology . This work defends the thesis that this capacity of the imaginative faculty would have a fundamental role in the development of the subjective deduction presented by Kant in the first edition of his Critique of pure reason , indicating, as it would make it possible to consider from its functioning a theory of psychological judgments, however, we will emphasize that such a possibility would be limited in the Critique , a fact that we consider to add its field of action and investigation to Anthropology , which would characterize this last work as a fertile field for psychological action and investigation.