A linguagem enquanto grandeza transcendental em Karl-Otto Apel

Abstract

The author presents the Apel’s philosophy from the confrontation of the kant’s philosophy transcendental with the linguistic-pragmatic overturn in the philosophy of the XX century. To Apel, the Kant’s philosophy has to be faced with linguistic turn. To him, it means to understand that the transcendental question necessarily implies for the language human being question as a condition to the possibility and validity of the intersubjective understanding and to estabilish, from the nowadays reached level for the epistemological reflection, the proper language game, related to the philosophy. Therefore, according to a theorical articulation more elaborated thought comprehension of the language in the philosophical reflection, the philosophy is apt to face, without naivety, the challenges of the contemporary world.