Ontologia e teoria della conoscenza nei giovani neokantiani

The “young Neo-Kantians”, particularly Bauch, Cohn and Cassirer, laid the groundwork for a renewal of the Kantian theory of knowledge that included ontological foundations, with attention to empirical and linguistic aspects of cultural and scientific expressions. But their remarks lacked systematicity and did not always prove adequate to understand the theoretical implications of the logical-mathematical acquisitions connected to a new trascendental ontology. They also showed a reluctance to take seriously the requests coming from phenomenology and philosophy of existence, whose sceptical and subjective character they judged quite unrelated to the Kantian tradition. So it seems appropriate to distinguish, as belonging in the strict sense to the third phase, a “younger” Neo-Kantianism which, in the figures of Zocher, Hönigswald, Cramer, Wagner and Flach, is characterised by the recovery and renewal, within transcendental philosophy, of the logical-semantic tradition that had united Leibniz, Bolzano and Husserl and was now extended to the critical exploitation of mathematical intuitionism, phenomenology and the latest ontological inquiries.