Kant’s Architectonics
Found the following when googling around:
Practically all books and not a few articles on [Charles Sanders] Peirce point out the fact that the American philosopher highly commended the parallel drawn by Kant between a philosophical doctrine and a piece of architecture.
- José Ferrater Mora, “Peirce’s Conception of Architectonic and Related Views,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research no. 15, March 1995.
So I searched Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason at Amazon; found the following passages:
Human reason is by nature architectonic. That is to say, it regards all our knowledge as belonging to a possible system, and therefore allows only such principles as do not at any rate make it impossible for any knowledge that we may attain to combine into a system with other knowledge. [p. 429]
And:
By an architectonic I understand the art of constructing systems. As systematic unity is what first raises ordinary knowledge to the rank of science, that is, makes a system out of a mere aggregate of knowledge, architectonic is the doctrine of the scientific in our knowledge, and therefore necessarily forms part of the doctrine of method. [p. 653]