De nobis ipsis silemus. Sulla morte di Immanuel Kant

The description of Immanuel Kant’s last days and of the phrenological and craniometric studies on his skull gives to the Author the opportunity to discuss the philosophical validity of biographies and more in general to re-examine the vexata quaestio of the relationship between philosophy and history of philosophy. In this short essay the Author supports the thesis that, for the most part, any reference to the biographies of philosophers is essentially no use – their works have to be judged as such, independently of whoever wrote them and also to a large extent from the historical context – and that there is need to get back to a philosophical history of philosophy, while still maintain the very rigorous approach to which the history of philosophy has accustomed us in the last few decades.