This paper is the first of a series examining the legacy of Karl Jaspers' psychopathy
within Immanuel Kant's theory of knowledge. The debt in which Jaspers'
philosophizing stands to Kant's philosophy has often been pointed out, although there
is no systematic study. The debt in which Jaspers' psychopathology stands to Kant's
theory of knowledge has never been previously noted. This paper situates Kant's theory
of knowledge between the empiricist theory that knowledge is the exclusive product of
sensory input and the rationalist theory that knowledge is the result of innate and
necessary structures of thinking. It is this middle course which allows Kant to
develop his two-stem theory of form and content. This is the philosophical origin of
the distinction of form and content within Jaspers' psychopathology. The paper
goes on to briefly examine Kant's theories of scientific knowledge and of
metaphysics which rely on the regulative use of the Ideas of reason. The use of the
Ideas of reason within psychopathology will be the topic of a sequel paper.
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