Transitivity of knowledge

Abstract

The article points out that Kant approached the ideas of the Enlightenment as a state of adulthood, which presents an opportunity to proceed from the private statement to the public one, so that the public statement could become private. The article presents an attempt to formalize this transition in two different perspectives: degree of universality and duration. The results of such formalization show how we can describe the early modern philosophy in terms of the Enlightenment, the benefit of such description, and how the updated course on the history of the early modern philosophy can be organized.

Keywords:

transitivity of knowledge, the Early Modern philosophy