critical philosophy
Noun
Meaning
critical philosophy (uncountable)
A Kantian approach to philosophy, in which the primary purpose is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories to critical review.
Examples
Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
Kant's critical philosophy is the most elaborate fit of panic in the history of the Earth.
This involved two interconnected foundations of his " critical philosophy ": * the epistemology of transcendental idealism and * the moral philosophy of the autonomy of practical reason.
Kant's goal in his critical philosophy was to identify what claims we are and are not justified in making, and the antinomies are a particularly illustrative example of his larger project.