BEING AND FUNCTION IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT AND CONSTANTIN NOICA

The following paper investigates the possibility of the profound reversal in the understanding of the concept of Being taking place in the philosophy of Imm Kant. This reversal originates in the functional way Kant interprets the process of cognition. Constantin Noica was influenced by the Kantian conception, but his main intention is nevertheless not that of creating a philosophical anthropology but an ontology. hi his philosophy, Noica gives to the concept of function an ontological meaning and interprets Being simultaneously as substance and function.