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Author : Dieter Henrich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674929055
In this collection comprising four of his most influential essays, Henrich proves himself unique in the conjunction of philosophical acumen, insight, and originality that he brings to Kant interpretation.
Author : Susan Neiman Professor of Philosophy Tel Aviv University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199772117
The Unity of Reason is the first major study of Kant's account of reason. It argues that Kant's wide-ranging interests and goals can only be understood by redirecting attention from epistemological questions of his work to those concerning the nature of reason. Rather than accepting a notion of reason given by his predecessors, a fundamental aim of Kant's philosophy is to reconceive the nature of reason. This enables us to understand Kant's insistence on the unity of theoretical and practical reason as well as his claim that his metaphysics was driven by practical and political ends. Neiman begins by discussing the historical roots of Kant's conception of reason, and by showing Kant's solution to problems which earlier conceptions left unresolved. Kant's notion of reason itself is examined through a discussion of all the activities Kant attributes to reason. In separate chapters discussing the role of reason in science, morality, religion, and philosophy, Neiman explores Kant's distinctions between reason and knowledge, and his difficult account of the regulative principles of reason. Through examination of these principles in Kant's major and minor writings, The Unity of Reason provides a fundamentally new perspective on Kant's entire work.
Author : Lea Ypi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191065422
The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character. By focusing on the sources, evolution and function of Kant's concept of purposiveness, this book shows that the idea of purposiveness that Kant endorses in the Critique of Pure Reason is a concept of purposiveness as intelligent design, quite different from the concept of purposiveness as normativity that will become central to his later works. In the case of purposiveness as design, the relationship between reason and nature is anchored to the idea of God. In the case of purposiveness as normativity, it is anchored to the concept of reflexive judgment, and grounded on transcendental freedom. Understanding this shift has important implications for some of the most difficult questions that confront the Kantian system: the passage from the system of nature to that of freedom, the relation between faith and knowledge, the philosophical defence of progress in history, and the role of religion. It is also crucial to shed light on the way in which Kant's critique has shaped the successive German philosophical tradition.
Author : Angelica Nuzzo
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1557531889
This is a comprehensive reconstruction and a detailed analysis of Kant's ""Critique of Judgment"". In the light of the third ""Critique"", the book offers a final interpretation of the critical project as a whole and proposes a new reading of Kant's notion of human experience.
Author : Saju Chackalackal
Publisher : Saju Chackalackal
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 8186861513
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486113029
This 1788 work, based on belief in the immortality of the soul, established Kant as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity. It offers the most complete statement of his theory of free will.
Author : Marcus Willaschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108472630
Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.
Author : Angelica Nuzzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1557531870
Angelica Nuzzo offers a comprehensive reconstruction & a detailed analysis of Kant's 'Critique of Judgement', proposing a new reading of Kant's notion of human experience in which domains, as different as knowledge, morality & the experience of beauty & life, are viewed in a unified perspective.
Author : Bernard Freydberg
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010515372
The Kerygma of the Wilderness Traditions in the Hebrew Bible examines biblical writers' use of the wilderness traditions in the books of Exodus and Numbers, Deuteronomy, the Prophets, and the Writings to express their beliefs in God and their understandings of the community's relationship to God. Kerygma is the proclamation of God's actions with the purpose of affirming faith/or appealing to an obedient response from the community. The experiences of the wilderness community, who rebelled and refused to live according to God's purposes, serve as a polemic against disbelief in God and the refusal to embrace Israel's religious heritage. In the Writings, more than in the Prophets, the wilderness traditions are remembered with a notable resemblance to the traditions in Exodus and Numbers, which reflects a heightened interest in the ancient traditions in the closing turbulent period of Israelite history. Recollections of Israel's beginnings in the wilderness address problems associated with faith, obedience, and ultimately, the nature of the Israelite community.
Author : Alfredo Ferrarin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226419381
The goal of the present book is nothing less than to correct what Alfredo Ferrarin calls the standard reading of Kant s. Ferrarin argues that this widespread form of interpretation has failed to do justice to Kant s philosophy primarily because it is rooted in several uncritical and unjustified assumptions. Two are particularly egregious: a compartmentalization of the First Critique, and an isolation of each Critique from the others. Ultimately these two assumptions cause one to lose sight of the fact that the cognitive/epistemological functions laid out in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic are functions of an overarching pure reason of which the constitution of experience (and of a science of nature) is only one problem among others. This book, by contrast, argues that the main problem, which pervades the entire first critique, is the power that reason has to reach beyond itself and legislate over the world. Ferrarin pays close attention to both the Transcendental Dialectic and the Doctrine of Method where Kant lays out his conception of cosmic philosophy as embodied in the ideal philosopher."
Author : Béatrice Longuenesse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139447591
In this collection of essays Béatrice Longuenesse considers the three aspects of Kant's philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics of nature, his moral philosophy and his aesthetic theory, under one unifying standpoint: Kant's conception of our capacity to form judgements. She argues that the elements which make up our cognitive access to the world - what Kant calls the 'human point of view' - have an equally important role to play in our moral evaluations and our aesthetic judgements. Her discussion ranges over Kant's account of our representations of space and time, his conception of the logical forms of judgements, sufficient reason, causality, community, God, freedom, morality, and beauty in nature and art. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant and his thought.
Author : Terence C. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 088946300X
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521667917
The essays collected in this volume have a strong thematic and interpretative unity. Their underlying concern is with the overall nature of Kant's philosophical system, and thus with his deepest intentions and basic commitments. The book falls into three parts. The first three essays deal with Kant's approach to things in themselves and with the realm of noumenal causality. The second part considers Kant's approach to the methodology of rational inquiry, and, in particular, his views on cognitive systematization and the limits of philosophizing itself. The third section focuses on the role played by the categorical imperative in both the theoretical and practical philosophy. The aim throughout, one that many Kant scholars and students will find provocative, is to show that in an important sense Kant is prepared to assert the primacy of practical over theoretical philosophy.
Author : Karl Schafer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192694850
Kant's Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant's conception of reason and its philosophical significance. Karl Schafer argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or "comprehension"). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and practical rationality, without reducing either to the other. In particular, it enables us to see why the activities of both theoretical and practical reason are governed by a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, while also seeing why reason is essentially autonomous. At the same time, Kant's Reason reads Kant as presenting a compelling picture of the role that reason, as a capacity or power, should play in a systematic approach to foundational philosophical questions. In doing so, it argues for an account of the fundamental norms that apply to rational beings that treats neither substantive reasons or values nor merely structural rationality as fundamental, but instead provides a robust conception of reason as a power or capacity for theoretical and practical understanding. The result is a form of rational constitutivism, which contrasts both with the forms of reasons fundamentalism that are currently fashionable and the forms of agency-first constitutivism that have dominated Kantian metaethics. In this sense, this volume aims to vindicate Kant's insistence that his philosophy represents nothing more or less than reason's implicit self-understanding coming to explicit and systematic self-consciousness.
Author : Susan Meld Shell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226752178
Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant's individual writings, but also the unity of his work and life experience. Shell argues that the central animating issues of Kant's lifework concerned the perplexing relation of spirit to body. Through an exacting analysis of individual writings, Shell maps the philosophical contours of Kant's early intellectual struggles and their relation to his more mature thought. The paradox of mind in matter and the tensions it generates—between freedom and determinacy, independence and community, ideal and real—are shown to inform the whole of his work. Shell's fresh, penetrating analysis of the precritical works will surely catapult them to new prominence in Kant studies. Shell's critique goes further to consider the context of contemporary intellectual life. She explores the fascinating realm of Kant's sexual and medical idiosyncracies, linking them to the primary concerns of his critical philosophy. She develops a sure-to-be controversial treatment of the connection between Kant's philosophy and his chronic hypochondria, and illuminates previously unforeseen connections in a remarkable convergence of life and thought, with important theoretical and practical implications for modern times.
