Kant on the Human Standpoint (Modern European Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press, 6/1/2009
EAN 9780521112185, ISBN10: 0521112184
Paperback, 320 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
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.
Introduction
Part I. Discussions
1. Kant's categories and capacity to judge
2. Synthetics, logical forms, and the objects of our ordinary experience
3. Synthetics and givenness
Part II. The Human Standpoint in Kant's Transcendental Analytic
4. Kant on a priori concepts
the metaphysical deduction of the categories
5. Kant's deconstruction of the principle of sufficient reason
6. Kant on causality
what was he trying to prove?
7. Kant's standpoint on the whole
disjunctive judgement, community, and the Third Analogy of Experience
Part III. The Human Standpoint in the Critical System
8. The transcendental ideal, and the unity of the critical system
9. Moral judgement as a judgement of reason
10. Kant's leading thread in the analytic of the beautiful.