The Art of Deception or the Art of Interpretation? On the Relationship of Kant's Critical Philosophy to Rhetoric

The article is a historical-systematic study dedicated to Kant's critical philosophy. It contains therefore both a historical and a systematic level: for every selected historical example, an example of Kant's critical philosophy, it follows and investigates a selected systematic problem of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. The relationship between philosophy and rhetoric is therefore not examined here directly and immediately, but indirectly - through an examination and interpretation of selected works of Kant. In this context, the author refers to the results of international Kantian research, which has also recently focused more and more on an examination and interpretation of the relationship between Kant's critical philosophy and rhetoric, and based on his own examination and interpretation of the corresponding texts and passages, comes to the conclusion that the relationship of Kant's critical philosophy to rhetoric is more nuanced than is generally assumed.