Autós. La trasvalutazione sensibile dell’intuizione intellettuale

The power of producing objects by means of representation alone is assigned by Kant to God’s intuitive intellect (the visio Dei) and is denied to humans, who must stick to a manifold “given”, namely to sensible intuition. A divine intellect could not even conceive, according to Kant, the “modes” of contingency and necessity, which are the modes through which a human intellect relates to experience. A reappraisal of intellectual intuition implies that intuition is no longer understood as a species of the genus of representation, but is thought of as a pure and non-empirical feeling, always “in act”, different by nature from representation. The videre videor of Descartes’ Second Meditation works as an intellectual intuition like this: the possible-real disjunction does not affect it.