Immanuel Kant's Critiques as Fulfillment of the Philosophy in sensu cosmopolitico

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It is documented that Kant stated in one of his Lectures on Logic, edited by G. B. Jaesche, that the field of philosophy in sensu cosmopolitico, or according to the cosmopolitan concept, can be brought down tothe four questions: 1) What can I know? 2) What ought I to do? 3) What may I hope? 4) What is man? We find the former three questions in the same order also in Critique of Pure Reason. Therefore it seems to us that Kant's critical philosophy, represented by his three critiques, is nothing other than the fulfillment of philosophy in sensu cosmopolitico. But a rough guess is shaky and insufficient. Iexamine in this paper the correlation between three critiques plus Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason and three questions in order to demonstrate that supposition on firm grounds. I emphasize the importance of the supplement to the answer to the first question in Critique of the Power of Judgment and of the involved necessity for newly answering the third question, which is satisfied through Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason.
2011-03-20