Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
Abstract
In the Critique of pure reason (1781), as is well known, Kant offers a schematic presentation of Leibniz\u2019s philosophy, interpreted as a paradigmatic case of conceptual \u201camphiboly\u201d, where the fundamental distinction between the conditions of sense knowledge and intellectual knowledge is missed: accordingly, Leibniz\u2019s mistake would consist in handling phenomena, i.e. the objects of sense, as if they were \u2018things in themselves\u2019, modeled on pure intellectual cognition. Among other theses, the monadological view would directly arise from this mistake: more precisely, from the idea that simple beings would be prior to composite ones, and their intrinsic properties would be basic with respect to their external, i.e. spatial, relations (KrV A 260/B 316)
