Abstract:

Gustavo Bontadini retrieved the reasons to adfirm of transcendence and creation within a philosophical context that was profoundly shaped by Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic. The first aim of my paper is to reconstruct Bontadini’s reading of the Critique of Pure Reason (KrV), which he considered as an exemplary case of gnoseological naturalism. Secondly, it highlights the passages of KrV, in which Kant problematically introduces the different aspects of the noumenon and of the relation of this latter with empirical reality. Finally, it shows that Bontadini’s philosophy values the relevant concern of Kantian critique of metaphysics, that is to avoid to apply to positive noumenon the categories that govern the experience. Thus, while attempting to determinate the transcendent reality without empirically categorizing it, classical metaphysics, in Bontadini’s thought, becomes more essential and rigorous.

Key words:

Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, Gustavo Bontadini, metafisica classica.