The Architectonic Of Reason

Author : Lea Ypi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
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Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198748526

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The Architectonic of Reason by Lea Ypi Pdf

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 : Nadir Lahiji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429885068

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An Architecture Manifesto by Nadir Lahiji Pdf

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. This is the wrong path contemporary architecture has taken. In its reduction to a pure aesthetic object, architecture negatively affects the human sensorium. Capitalist consumer society creates desires by generating ‘surplus-enjoyment’ for capitalist profit and contemporary architecture has become an instrument in generating this ‘surplus-enjoyment’, with fatal consequences. This manifesto is thus both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within architectural discourse and a timely response to the conditions of architecture today.

Author : Alfredo Ferrarin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226419381

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The Powers of Pure Reason by Alfredo Ferrarin Pdf

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 : Karin de Boer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842174

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Kant's Reform of Metaphysics by Karin de Boer Pdf

This book reinterprets key parts of the Critique of Pure Reason in view of Kant's sustained engagement with Wolffian metaphysics.

Author : Marcus Willaschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108472630

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Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics by Marcus Willaschek Pdf

Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.

Author : Sorin Baiasu,Sami Pihlström,Howard Williams
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783164752

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Politics and Metaphysics in Kant by Sorin Baiasu,Sami Pihlström,Howard Williams Pdf

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant’s writings.

Author : Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789056294168

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The Architectonic of Philosophy by Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh Pdf

"Whereas the history of philosophy defines metaphysics as asking the question 'What is Being?'; here is asked 'Where is Being?' What is to be analyzed is indeed part of the tradition of metaphysics to inquire about Being qua being, but here the inquiry is into its structure, its position within the ontological whole. The concept of the 'architectonic' is borrowed from Kant ... In this work, three philosophical structures are chosen for a more extensive examination: the three 'architectonics' are that of Plato's Chora, Aristoteles' continuum, and finally Leibniz's labyrinth"--Back cover.

Author : Daniel Leonhard Purdy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801476969

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On the Ruins of Babel by Daniel Leonhard Purdy Pdf

The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness. The architect, as philosophers liked to think of him, was obligated by the design and construction process to mediate between the abstract and the actual. In On the Ruins of Babel, Daniel Purdy traces this notion back to its wellspring. He surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum. Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings.

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438459974

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Kant and Aristotle by Marco Sgarbi Pdf

A historical and philosophical reassessment of the impact of Aristotle and early-modern Aristotelianism on the development of Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Kant and Aristotle reassesses the prevailing understanding of Kant as an anti-Aristotelian philosopher. Taking epistemology, logic, and methodology to be the key disciplines through which Kant’s transcendental philosophy stood as an independent form of philosophy, Marco Sgarbi shows that Kant drew important elements of his logic and metaphysical doctrines from Aristotelian ideas that were absent in other philosophical traditions, such as the distinction of matter and form of knowledge, the division of transcendental logic into analytic and dialectic, the theory of categories and schema, and the methodological issues of the architectonic. Drawing from unpublished documents including lectures, catalogues, academic programs, and the Aristotelian-Scholastic handbooks that were officially adopted at Königsberg University where Kant taught, Sgarbi further demonstrates the historical and philosophical importance of Aristotle and Aristotelianism to these disciplines from the late sixteenth century to the first half of the eighteenth century.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107145115

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Kant's Conception of Freedom by Henry E. Allison Pdf

Traces the development of Kant's views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

Author : Jan de Heer
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789064506710

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The Architectonic Colour by Jan de Heer Pdf

This book is an account of a significant aspect of Le Corbusier's work - the relationships between form and colour. The book relates the way in which he arrived at a personal architectonic polychromy in the early 1920s and how his theories relating to Purism developed.

Author : Sebastian Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134813728

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason by Sebastian Gardner Pdf

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. The book introduces and assesses: * Kant's life and background of the Critique of Pure Reason * the ideas and text of the Critique of Pure Reason * the continuing relevance of Kant's work to contemporary philosophy. Ideal for anyone coming to Kant's thought for the first time. This guide will be vital reading for all students of Kant in philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789064506185

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The Architecture Annual 2005-2006. Delft University of Technology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198032359

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The Architecture of Reason by Robert Audi Pdf

The literature on theoretical reason has been dominated by epistemological concerns, treatments of practical reason by ethical concerns. This book overcomes the limitations of dealing with each separately. It sets out a comprehensive theory of rationality applicable to both practical and theoretical reason. In both domains, Audi explains how experience grounds rationality, delineates the structure of central elements, and attacks the egocentric conception of rationality. He establishes the rationality of altruism and thereby supports major moral principles. The concluding part describes the pluralism and relativity his conception of rationality accommodates and, taking the unified account of theoretical and practical rationality in that light, constructs a theory of global rationality--the overall rationality of persons. Rich in narrative examples, intriguing analogies, and intuitively appealing arguments, this beautifully crafted book will spur advances in ethics and epistemology as well in philosophy of mind and action and the theory of rationality itself.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.