Platonism of Kant

Immanuel Kant(1724-1804), in the critics of pure mind, in introduction said: “Though every our knowledge begins through experience, but it isn’t that it derived entirely from experience. It could to occur that our empiric knowledge is a compost of that we receive through the impressions and that our possibility of knowledge add in autonomy(because simply stimulated  by external impressions…”, this mention could be useless if we don’t consider that this step of Kant is specular to dynamic of knowledge of Plato; the myth of cavern is the short explication of Plato regard to knowledge of men; Plato descants that the knowledge of men is alone a window, as a man that sees a wall of cavern and he looks alone widows, thereupon alone partial image that pass, because the truth knowledge is alone the world of ideas, that is eternal and immutable; in fact in Phaedon, a book of  Plato, Socrates explain what is this world of ideas, but before is introduction of argument, and to understand it we are going to read some steps: “Every thing you don’t touch, see or perceive them, and we can understand t it alone through the think? These realities aren’t  may invisible and inaccessible to sight?!” answered Cebetes, other interlocutor: “How do you are saying”, thereby, Socrates adds: “ Do you allow me, that are two kind of existence, one is visible and other invisible?”, Cebetes: “Yes”. In conformity of opinion of Plato our soul, that is preexisting to body, goes to world of ideas and there sees every thing, after in the body we have alone remembers of the first speculation, in Latin acceptetion, thereupon sight of these thinghs, that are equal to world of ideas; and the other concept of “in itself”, very important to Plato and Kant; the world of ideas is to Plato in hyperuranium, bover the space, then known; the rapport between ideas and the real things is the “mimesis”, this is imitation; the thing in the world are alone poor imitation of same things in the hyperuranium, that are perfect; and other concept Plato’s very important to Kant is the “metessis”, ideas is same sustance, the thing partecipe to the ideas, and the concept of “parusia”, this is the ideas is present in the thing and it is essence. We can consider again that mention that we over side read: “It could to occur that our empiric knowledge is a compost of that we receive through the impressions and that our possibility of knowledge add in autonomy(because simply stimulated  by external impressions”; it is the “metessis”, this is same sustance of thing; thereupon Kant is influenced directly from Plato, and he has took directly his ideas. Proof of this judgement is following step Kant's: "It existe a question that needs more exam...if existe an similar knowledge indipendent from experience and from every sensible impression. This king of knowledge are called "a priori", and it are distinct from empiric, that have directly source rear, this is experince"; it seems Plato in modern version, we known every thing alone that the soul has in the body and after that has seenthe wordl of ideas. 

Alessandro Lusana