Architectonics

In philosophy, architectonics is used figuratively (after architecture ) to mean "foundational" or "fundamental", supporting the structure of a morality, society, or culture. In Kant's architectonic system there is a progression of phases from the most formal to the most empirical ^[1] C. S. Peirce adapted the Kantian concept as his blueprint for a pragmatic philosophy. Martial Gueroult wrote of "architectonic unities". Michel Foucault adapted the concept in his treatise The Archaeology of Knowledge

See also

• Aristotelianism, a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle
• The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir), a 1969 treatise by Michel Foucault

References

1. For an explanation of the logical structure of this progression, see Stephen Palmquist, "The Architectonic Form of Kant's Copernican Logic", Metaphilosophy 17:4 (October 1986), pp. 266–288; revised and reprinted as Chapter III of Stephen Palmquist, Kant's System of Perspectives: An architectonic interpretation of the Critical philosophy (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993). Also see the third appendix, entitled "Common Objections to Architectonic Reasoning".