The concept of symbolic exposition in Kant

Abstract

The objective validity of our conceptual representations in the theoretical domain depends on their possible reference to intuition, either through presenting an example or constructing an a priori intuition. Although it has no cognitive purpose, the demand of an intuitional reference also applies to those representations which are essentially not capable of being sensitized. this would be the case of rational concepts in general, which are used by moral speech. the main aim of our paper is to analyze the nature, function and systematic place of symbolic exposition, as an alternative way of referring to the sensible world that allows us to present some aspects of the representations, i.e. the ideas or rational concepts, which lack any direct intuitive reference. More specifically, we will analyze the set of relations by which aesthetics becomes the field where the moral domain is rendered sensible.