Il centro e la circonferenza. La questione della totalità in 'Lo scopo ultimo del pensiero umano' di K. P. Moritz

The purpose of the article is to examine the notion of totality elaborated by K. P. Moritz in the essay der letzte Zweck des menschlichen denkens. Gesichtspunkt, published in 1786. this notion is related to the research of the right ‘point of view’, or the discovery of a core that de nes pro- spectively the multiplicity of objects otherwise indeterminate. our aim is to show how the deter- mination of Moritz’s totality does not belong to an epistemic eld but it is contingent and tied to a horizontal plane of immancence. In this sense, differently from the portrait delineated by a certain historiographic tradition, Moritz is more than a simple ‘precursor’ of Kant