The Origin of Knowledge According to Ramón Turró as the Psychological Beginning of the Kantian Epistemology

Abstract

The article begins by presenting the texts of Ramón Turró on the trophic origin of knowledge. After the introduction, these ideas of Turró are conceived as a complementary theory to the epistemology of Kant, exposed mainly in the Critique of the Pure Reason. Turró’s theories, thus understood, would explain how knowledge begins in experience, while the epistemology of Kant would refer to the rational mechanisms that give universality and necessity to scientific knowledge. That is to say, Kant realizes an epistemological theory, whereas Turró carries out a psychological theory of the genesis of the knowledge. From this perspective, and based on some texts by Miguel de Unamuno, the article briefly analyzes concepts as fundamental as reality, existence, space, knowledge, instinct or behavior. In the final part, a brief reflection on the concepts of animal phronesis and nutrition in Aristotle is included, in which the Stagirite is postulated as a precursor of the ideas of Turró.