Marco Sgarbi 
Kant and Aristotle 
Epistemology, Logic, and Method

Kant and Aristotle reassesses the prevailing understanding of Kant as an anti-Aristotelian philosopher. Taking epistemology, logic, and methodology to be the key disciplines through which Kant’s transcendental philosophy stood as an independent form of philosophy, Marco Sgarbi shows that Kant drew important elements of his logic and metaphysical doctrines from Aristotelian ideas that were absent in other philosophical traditions, such as the distinction of matter and form of knowledge, the division of transcendental logic into analytic and dialectic, the theory of categories and schema, and the methodological issues of the architectonic. Drawing from unpublished documents including lectures, catalogues, academic programs, and the Aristotelian-Scholastic handbooks that were officially adopted at Königsberg University where Kant taught, Sgarbi further demonstrates the historical and philosophical importance of Aristotle and Aristotelianism to these disciplines from the late sixteenth century to the first half of the eighteenth century.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments

Sources and Abbreviations



Introduction

The Other Kant

Kant in Context

Prospectus



1. Facultative Logic

The Operations of the Mind

Gnostology and Noology

Habit and Physiology

Between Locke and Leibniz



2. Transcendental Logic

Matter and Form

Syllogistic and Combinatorics Before Kant

Syllogistic and Combinatorics in Kant

Categories and Judgments

Analytic and Dialectic



3. Methodology

Method in the Aristotelian Tradition

Modern Conceptions of Method

Kant’s Precritical Conception of Method

The Method of
Critique of Pure Reason



Conclusion

Aristotle in Kant

The Aristotelian Kant



Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Marco Sgarbi is Professor of History of Philosophy at the Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy.