The paper shows how the transcendental assumptions of Kant’s Critique of Reason collects
together two of the key moments that, in their various relationships, recur throughout the
post-Kantian discussion: anti-psycologism respectively psychologism on the one hand, and
anthropology on the other hand. Whereas the position of K.L. Reinhold’s Elementary Philosophy
is characterized by a proposal for a superior factualism – that of consciousness as
condition of possibility of human experience –, the arguments put forward by J.G. Fichte’s
Doctrine of science intend to overcome such a transcendental psychology in order to gain
back the true meaning of Kant’s critical turning point, without accepting some too formalistic
restrictions.
