Abstract

A deep, unbiased study of I. Kant's intellectual legacy, which would decisively renounce the cliches and stereotypes we have formed, is today one of the most important tasks in the development of Russian philosophical culture. This is not merely because Kant is one of the key figures in world philosophy and, as Ia.E. Golosovker said, "regardless of whence and where a thinker was traveling on the road of philosophy, he would have to have crossed the bridge called Kant." To master the experience of Kant's thought, not merely the letter of the doctrine but first of all his spirit, is particularly urgent for us in the present quite dramatic situation, in which the initial premises and foundations of philosophical knowledge are being reevaluated and new paths and prospects are being sought. Kant, first of all, is a determined enemy of any kind of dogmatism in theoretical thought who carries critical reflection to its original presuppositions and exposes the root problems in the interrelation between thought and being, the possibilities and main difficulties of a rational-cognitive study of "certain foundations" of man's relation to the world. In this context, at a time, it should be emphasized, which is not the happiest period for our philosophy and for the history of philosophy, the publication of a new work on Kant's theory of knowledge by two well-known and productive representatives of the older generation of our philosophers cannot but arouse interest.