Per una filosofia del senso. Eric Weil interprete di Kant

The article presents the essential features of Eric Weil’s original interpretation of Kant’s thought. On Weil’s view, at the core of the Kantian philosophy lies the notion of ‘sense’: to finite moral beings, the world is a meaningful context, open to purposiveness and transformation according to the ends reason gives itself. The understanding of man as the ‘ultimate end’ of nature, a crucial result of the third Critique, entails a ‘projectual’ form of rationality, closely tied to the teleology of reason which has been developed by Kant in the Architectonic of Pure Reason. The Logique de la philosophie – Weil’s theoretical masterpiece – is dominated by the idea of an absolutely coherent discourse. This notion is a heritage of the Hegelian dialectic, that radicalises Kant’s concept of the philosopher as the legislator of human reason.