Che cos'è "trascendentale" nell'agire presente del soggetto? Le filosofie di Croce e Gentile come paradigmi della tradizione idealistica

In order to understand the significance that the concept of ‘transcendental’ plays in the Neo-idealism of Croce and Gentile, it is necessary, firstly, to ask which features a possible transcendentality of the Act may have. In fact, both Croce and Gentile (although, at least apparently, especially Gentile) ground the elaboration of their own philosophical perspective precisely on the concept of Act. But both the act of thinking in Gentile and the spiritual act in Croce are transcendental syntheses of a content that is itself transcendental. Consequently, the Neo-idealistic philosophy shows how the transcendental ends up making circularly possible only itself and so abandoning the ‘empirical’ to the absolute empirical character of its existence (i.e. as given in fact rather than in principle). The contribution raises, at this point, the question about whether the Neo-idealism of Croce and Gentile, in succeeding in such an involuntary result, ends up revealing the irremediable conflict of Kant’s critical idealism with itself, according to the conclusions of the examination of Kant’s trascendental Analytics carried out by Luigi Scaravelli in the essays that he dedicated to the thought of the philosopher of Königsberg.