Dalla cosa in sé all’oggetto trascendentale. Principio finale e schema del giudizio sintetico a priori

The purpose of this essay is to suggest an interpretation of both the character and the role of the «transcendental Object» into the ontological project, that Kant proposes in the Critique of pure reason. By stressing the undoubted ties between this last and the concept of the «Thing in itself», I propose to consider these two concepts as two sides of the same coin or, better, as two moments involved in the same process: the ontological judgment. According to this, I’m going to show that, if the concept of the Thing in itself acts as a final principle of the synthetic judgment a priori, the transcendental Object takes the role of «schema» for the measurement of the general objectivity of the phenomena. The proposed thesis is that the transcendental Object, in order to do this, must have not only a conceptual form, but also a «transcendental content»: the synthesis a priori of the pure possible intuition; i.e. space and time