ABSTRACT
The paper shows the way in which Reinhold, in his Beyträge of 1801-1803, overcomes a mere progressive conception of the history of philosophy and interprets the errors discovered in the failed attempts to carry out the fundamental task of philosophy in a positive dimension, as an essential heuristic instrument for its realization (§ 4), after a synthetic description of the Reinholdian critiques of the models of transcendental philosophy embodied by Fichte and Schelling, of Bouterweck’s supposed realism and the philosophies of common sense that are connected with them (§ 2), and as a consequence the demonstration of the inevitability of partial attempts to carry out the fundamental task of philosophy (§ 3) and the deepening of the notion of Nexus, which makes it possible to bring partial attempts back to the very immanent structure of reason. The resolution of the fundamental task of philosophizing through a heuristic of philosophy involves, therefore, a questioning of rational realism as a theory about reality and values its metacritical function, namely the questioning of the basic assumptions of philosophizing as a practice of rationality.
Keywords:
Reinhold, K.L.; Transcendental philosophy; Realism; Common sense; Heuristic