Journal | JoLMA
Journal issue | 5 | 2 | 2024
Research Article | Sitting at the Kantian Table of Nothingness
Sitting at the Kantian Table of Nothingness
Abstract
This article appeals to the table of nothingness (Nichts) occurring within Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason [1781; 1787] (1998) to assess three recent accounts of nothingness – (Priest 2014), (Costantini 2020), and (Casati & Fujikawa 2019) - under the light of folk preconceptions about nothingness. After defining the two strongest preconceptions as the absence of unrestrictedly everything (nihil absolutum) and the idea of nothingness as a self-contradictory item (nihil negativum), I argue that both might be read as two Aristotelian ‘connected homonyms’, rather than conflating them into a single item (as Priest’s and Casati & Fujikawa’s accounts seem to do), or dropping the idea of the nihil absolutum, as Costantini’s account does
Submitted: July 22, 2024 | Accepted: Oct. 17, 2024 | Published Dec. 12, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords absolute nothingness • Aristotle’s homonymy • Kant’s table of nothing • negative nothingness • Nothingness
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/02/007
