著者

笠井 哲

出版者

福島工業高等専門学校

雑誌

研究紀要 (ISSN:09166041)

巻号頁・発行日

no.44, pp.65-73, 2003

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The purpose of this paper is to consider the feature of methodology of the search for truth in Kant's graduation thesis. I hope to make clear the significance of the declaration of independence as the scholar in his thesis. Kant looked at the moderate proposition against the dispute among the scholars, tried to find the truth in the moderate course. Kant based the search for truth upon the freedom of human understanding in his starting point of study. As a result, the academic freedom was secured. It was not obey the authority and tradition blindly. Kant synthesized two different assertions and tried to find the moderate course. The critical method is an extension of this moderate method. It follows from this that the beginning of Kant's critical mind existed in this declaration of independence.