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itself in the name <strong>of</strong> truth means that it does not determine the faculties to harmonize other<br />

faculties and legislate over objects that are subject to them in its own name, but rather in the<br />

name <strong>of</strong> another. “For Kant what legislates (in a domain) is always one <strong>of</strong> our faculties:<br />

understanding, reason. We are legislators ourselves only ins<strong>of</strong>ar as we make proper use <strong>of</strong> this<br />

faculty and allot our other faculties tasks which conform to it. We are legislators only ins<strong>of</strong>ar as<br />

we submit to one <strong>of</strong> our faculties, as if it were the whole <strong>of</strong> ourselves. But to what do we submit<br />

in such a faculty, to what forces?” (NP 92). In other words, Kant submits knowledge, morality to<br />

truth, to nothing but the truth. “Kant’s ‘proper usage <strong>of</strong> the faculties’ mysteriously coincides with<br />

these established values: true knowledge, true morality…” (NP 93). In this sense Kant is<br />

committed to the image <strong>of</strong> thought. “According to this image, thought has the affinity with the<br />

true; it formally possesses the true…” (DR 131). In other words, “we are told that the thinker as<br />

thinker wants and loves truth (truthfulness <strong>of</strong> the tinker); that thought as thought possesses or<br />

formally contain truth (innateness <strong>of</strong> the idea, a priori nature <strong>of</strong> concepts); that thinking is the<br />

natural exercise <strong>of</strong> a faculty, that it is therefore sufficient to think ‘truly’ or ‘really’ in order to<br />

think with truth (sincere nature <strong>of</strong> truth, universally shared good sense)” (NP 103).<br />

Deleuze argues that Kant’s critical project takes the form the reversal <strong>of</strong> the jubere (to<br />

command) and parere (to obey). “Jubere instead <strong>of</strong> parere: is this not the essence <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Copernican revolution and the way in which critique is opposed to the old wisdom, to dogmatic<br />

and theological subjection?” (NP 92). However, that reason submits to truth means that the<br />

critical project fails. In other words, when it comes to truth the critical project remains dogmatic.<br />

“‘Truth was posited as being, as God, as the highest court <strong>of</strong> appeal…The will to truth requires a<br />

critique – let us thus define our own task – the value <strong>of</strong> truth must for once be experimentally<br />

called into question.’ It is at this point that Kant is the last <strong>of</strong> the classical philosophers: he never<br />

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