The Legitimacy of Conflict in the book "Conflict of Faculties"



Kant discusses the relationship between the three faculties of theology, law and medicine with the faculty of philosophy in the book Conflict of Faculties and explains the legitimate and illegitimate conflicts between them. The subject of the book is conjunction of theoretical and practical wisdom in the university. A legitimate conflict is a conflict in which freedom forces are placed on one side. Kant himself specifies that legitimate conflict should be established through the establishment of a faculty of philosophy in any university; but in our situation (in current Iranian academy) the important question is that despite the establishment of all kinds of philosophical faculties and schools, is there something like a conflict between faculties? Are our philosophical faculties looking for truth and freedom? How can this conflict be legitimized? In this article, I am trying to have a reading of the book Conflict of Faculties that is applicable to our situation. This reading is especially related to psychoanalysis and the struggle of psychological forces. One of the conditions for the legitimacy of an academic conflict is that it takes place in the university itself. The conflict between us begins and becomes legitimate when it has flowed inside the (academic) individual who, according to Kant himself, is the beginning of every culture. With such an attitude, we arrive at a modern interpretation of the university; according to this interpretation, the modern age is not a transformed era. Therefore, modern institutions are also established in their independence and break from past eras, and can pursue their functions in realizing progress.







Keywords: university, legitimate conflict, the legitimacy of the modern age, secularism, psychoanalysis

Keywords: university, legitimate conflict, the legitimacy of the modern age, secularism, psychoanalysis

Keywords: university, legitimate conflict, the legitimacy of the modern age, secularism, psychoanalysis