Kant on the Human Standpoint (Modern European Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Béatrice Longuenesse

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Series: Modern European Philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Béatrice Longuenesse considers the three aspects of Kant's philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics of nature, moral philosophy, and aesthetic theory, under one unifying standpoint: Kant's conception of our capacity to form judgments. She argues that the elements which make up our cognitive access to the world have an equally important role to play in our moral evaluations and our aesthetic judgments. Her book will appeal to all interested in Kant and his thought, ranging over Kant's account of our representations of space and time, his conception of the logical forms of judgments, sufficient reason, causality, community, God, freedom, morality, and beauty in nature and art.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
Part I Revisiting the capacity to judge......Page 29
1 Kant's categories, and the capacity to judge......Page 31
The understanding as a capacity to judge......Page 32
The categories "at both ends": synthesis and subsumption......Page 37
Epigenesis......Page 40
Deduction B, part one......Page 43
Deduction B, part two......Page 48
2 Synthesis, logical forms, and the objects of our ordinary experience......Page 53
Bottom up or top down?......Page 54
Quantity......Page 57
Space, time, infinity, and continuity......Page 61
Continuous and discrete magnitudes......Page 63
Substance, causality, interaction......Page 66
Substance, and universal interaction......Page 67
Causality......Page 72
Concluding remarks......Page 76
3 Synthesis and givenness......Page 78
Understanding and sensibility......Page 80
Form of intuition and formal intuition......Page 81
Space as ens imaginarium......Page 87
Quantum and quantitas......Page 90
Part II The human standpoint in the Transcendental Analytic......Page 93
4 Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the categories......Page 95
Historical background......Page 97
Kant's view of logic......Page 102
The Leading Thread: Kant's view of judgment, and the table of logical forms of judgment......Page 105
Kant's argument for the table of the categories......Page 114
The impact of Kant's metaphysical deduction of the categories......Page 121
5 Kant's deconstruction of the principle of sufficient reason......Page 131
The principle of determining reason in Kant's new explanation of the first principles of metaphysical knowledge......Page 133
Skeptical interludelogical reason and real reason. The synthetic ratio ponens......Page 143
The critical period: objective unity of self-consciousness and the principle of sufficient reason......Page 145
The proof of the Second Analogy of Experience......Page 146
Ratio existendi, ratio fiendi, ratio essendi......Page 149
The principle of reason and human freedom: the ground beyond grounds (the reason beyond reasons)......Page 152
Postscript......Page 155
6 Kant on causality: what was he trying to prove?......Page 157
Kant's problem about causality......Page 161
Causality and perception of objective temporal succession......Page 171
Premises (1) and (2)......Page 173
Premise (4): order-determinateness of the subjective succession, relation to an object, supposition of a rule......Page 175
Causality, necessity, and time......Page 186
Appendix: the five expositions of Kant's argument in the Second Analogy of Experience......Page 191
7 Kant's standpoint on the whole: disjunctive judgment, community, and the Third Analogy of Experience......Page 198
Logical functions and categories: the understanding as a capacity to judge......Page 200
Disjunctive judgment and the category of community (Gemeinschaft, Wechselwirkung)......Page 207
Kant's proof of the Third Analogy: simultaneity and universal interaction......Page 212
Concluding remarks......Page 218
Part III The human standpoint in the critical system......Page 223
8 The transcendental ideal and the unity of the critical system......Page 225
Kant's criticism of the Transcendental Ideal......Page 228
The Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection......Page 237
Reflective judgment and the affinity of appearances......Page 244
9 Moral judgment as a judgment of reason......Page 250
Hypothetical imperatives......Page 255
The categorical imperative......Page 260
"Can also will" and moral judgment......Page 266
Contradiction in conception, contradiction in the will......Page 271
Moral judgment, imputation, retribution......Page 276
Concluding remarks......Page 277
10 Kant's leading thread in the Analytic of the Beautiful......Page 279
The predicate of the judgment of taste: the expression of a disinterested pleasure......Page 280
The "subjective universality" of judgments of taste......Page 286
Relation in aesthetic judgment: the "purposiveness without a purpose" of the apprehended object as the ground of the "purposiveness without a purpose"…......Page 294
The subjective necessity of judgments of taste......Page 298
Primary sources......Page 305
Other works cited......Page 307
Index of citations......Page 311
Index of subjects......Page 314