Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation

Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation

Author: Katharina T. Kraus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-03

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 110883664X

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Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.


Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation

Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation

Author: Katharina T. Kraus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-03

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1108877745

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As the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, Kant famously calls on all humans to make up their own minds, independently from the constraints imposed on them by others. Kant's focus, however, is on universal human reason, and he tells us little about what makes us individual persons. In this book, Katharina T. Kraus explores Kant's distinctive account of psychological personhood by unfolding how, according to Kant, we come to know ourselves as such persons. Drawing on Kant's Critical works and on his Lectures and Reflections, Kraus develops the first textually comprehensive and systematically coherent account of our capacity for what Kant calls 'inner experience'. The novel view of self-knowledge and self-formation in Kant that she offers addresses present-day issues in philosophy of mind and will be relevant for contemporary philosophical debates. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of mind and psychology.


Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation

Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation

Author: Katharina T. Kraus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108812757

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As the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, Kant famously calls on all humans to make up their own minds, independently from the constraints imposed on them by others. Kant's focus, however, is on universal human reason, and he tells us little about what makes us individual persons. In this book, Katharina T. Kraus explores Kant's distinctive account of psychological personhood by unfolding how, according to Kant, we come to know ourselves as such persons. Drawing on Kant's Critical works and on his Lectures and Reflections, Kraus develops the first textually comprehensive and systematically coherent account of our capacity for what Kant calls 'inner experience'. The novel view of self-knowledge and self-formation in Kant that she offers addresses present-day issues in philosophy of mind and will be relevant for contemporary philosophical debates. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of mind and psychology.


Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

Author: Immanuel Kant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-20

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1139433091

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This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is often recommended to beginning students, but the other texts are also vintage Kant and are important sources for a fully rounded picture of Kant's intellectual development. As with other volumes in the series there are copious linguistic notes and a glossary of key terms. The editorial introductions and explanatory notes shed light on the critical reception accorded Kant by the metaphysicians of his day and on Kant's own efforts to derail his opponents.


Introducing Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Introducing Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Author: Paul Guyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1108899838

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This Element surveys the place of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant's overall philosophical project and describes and analyzes the main arguments of the work. It also surveys the developments in Kant's thought that led to the first critique, and provides an account of the genesis of the book during the 'silent decade' of its composition in the 1770s based on Kant's handwritten notes from the period.


Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy

Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy

Author: Rebecca Kukla

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-07-03

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13: 1139455168

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This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially for this volume, explore core elements of Kant's epistemology, such as his notions of discursive understanding, experience, and objective judgment. They also demonstrate a rich grasp of Kant's critical epistemology that enables a deeper understanding of his aesthetics. Collectively, the essays reveal that Kant's critical project, and the dialectics of aesthetics and cognition within it, is still relevant to contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the nature of experience and objectivity. The book also yields important lessons about the ineliminable, yet problematic place of imagination, sensibility and aesthetic experience in perception and cognition.


Kant on the Human Standpoint

Kant on the Human Standpoint

Author: Béatrice Longuenesse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-17

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1139447599

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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.


Hegel's Concept of Life

Hegel's Concept of Life

Author: Karen Ng

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0190947640

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Karen Ng sheds new light on Hegel's famously impenetrable philosophy. She does so by offering a new interpretation of Hegel's idealism and by foregrounding Hegel's Science of Logic, revealing that Hegel's theory of reason revolves around the concept of organic life. Beginning with the influence of Kant's Critique of Judgment on Hegel, Ng argues that Hegel's key philosophical contributions concerning self-consciousness, freedom, and logic all develop around the idea of internal purposiveness, which appealed to Hegel deeply. She charts the development of the purposiveness theme in Kant's third Critique, and argues that the most important innovation from that text is the claim that the purposiveness of nature opens up and enables the operation of the power of judgment. This innovation is essential for understanding Hegel's philosophical method in the Differenzschrift (1801) and Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), where Hegel, developing lines of thought from Fichte and Schelling, argues against Kant that internal purposiveness constitutes cognition's activity, shaping its essential relation to both self and world. From there, Ng defends a new and detailed interpretation of Hegel's Science of Logic, arguing that Hegel's Subjective Logic can be understood as Hegel's version of a critique of judgment, in which life comes to be understood as opening up the possibility of intelligibility. She makes the case that Hegel's theory of judgment is modelled on reflective and teleological judgments, in which something's species or kind provides the objective context for predication. The Subjective Logic culminates in the argument that life is a primitive or original activity of judgment, one that is the necessary presupposition for the actualization of self-conscious cognition. Through bold and ambitious new arguments, Ng demonstrates the ongoing dialectic between life and self-conscious cognition, providing ground-breaking ways of understanding Hegel's philosophical system.


Lectures on Anthropology

Lectures on Anthropology

Author: Immanuel Kant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0521771617

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The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.


The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism

The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism

Author: Gerad Gentry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1107197708

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Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.