Download or read book Knowledge Reason and Taste written by Paul Guyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.
Download or read book Knowledge Reason and Taste written by Paul Guyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.
Download or read book Kant and the Claims of Knowledge written by Paul Guyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-12-25 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radically new account of the development and structure of the central arguments of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance, causation, and independent existence. Paul Guyer makes far more extensive use than any other commentator of historical materials from the years leading up to the publication of the Critique and surrounding its revision, and he shows that the work which has come down to us is the result of some striking and only partially resolved theoretical tensions. Kant had originally intended to demonstrate the validity of the categories by exploiting what he called 'analogies of appearance' between the structure of self-knowledge and our knowledge of objects. The idea of a separate 'transcendental deduction', independent from the analysis of the necessary conditions of empirical judgements, arose only shortly before publication of the Critique in 1781, and distorted much of Kant's original inspiration. Part of what led Kant to present this deduction separately was his invention of a new pattern of argument - very different from the 'transcendental arguments' attributed by recent interpreters to Kant - depending on initial claims to necessary truth.
Download or read book Kant and the Claims of Taste written by Paul Guyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics.
Download or read book Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays written by David Hume and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taste written by Sarah E. Worth and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful consideration of taste as a sense and an idea and of how we might jointly develop both. When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does it taste of? And can we develop our taste? In Taste, Sarah Worth argues that taste is a sense that needs educating, for the real pleasures of eating only come with an understanding of what one really likes. From taste as an abstract concept to real examples of food, she explores how we can learn about and develop our sense of taste through themes ranging from pleasure, authenticity, and food fraud, to visual images, recipes, and food writing.
Download or read book The Significance of Beauty written by P.M. Matthews and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. Feeling has a special role within this system in that it also provides a transition between the other two powers of the mind, cognition and desire. Matthews argues that feeling, our experience of beauty, provides a transition because it orients humans in a sensible world. Judgments of taste help overcome the difficulties that arise when rational cognitive and moral ends must be pursued in a sensible world. Matthews demonstrates how feeling, disassociated from rational activities in Kant's earlier works, is now central in reaching rational ends and understanding humans as unified rational beings. Audience: This book would be of interest to research libraries and university libraries, philosophers, historians and aestheticians.
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding written by David Hume and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."
Download or read book Critique of Pure Reason written by Immanuel Kant and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human component) consisted of objective matter, an irreducible substance to which qualities and characteristics could be attributed. Mindthoughts, ideas, and perceptionswas viewed as a more sophisticated material substance. Idealists, on the other hand, argued that the world acquired its reality from mind, which breathed metaphysical life into substances that had no independent existence of their own. These two camps seemed deadlocked until Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason endeavored to show that the most accurate theory of reality would be one that combined relevant aspects of each position, yet transcended both to arrive at a more fundamental metaphysical theory. Kant's synthesis sought to disclose how human reason goes about constructing its experience of the world, thus intertwining objective simuli with rational processes that arrive at an orderly view of nature.
Download or read book Toward a Transcendence of Human Reason microform an Analysis of the Significance of Kant s Theory of Taste written by Paul Kashiyama and published by National Library of Canada. This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant has presented the Judgment as a mediating faculty between Understanding and Reason. The understanding, (together with Sensibility), provides objects, whereas the reason provides "Ideas" or principles. It is the task of the Judgment to make the application of the principles to objects possible. But, the theoretical function of judgment is 'determinant', i.e. the subsumption of the particular under the universal is dependent upon the laws of formal logic, and hence, is analytic. What Kant calls the 'reflective' judgment, however, is one which relies upon the presupposition of a certain end. It is, thus, the "reflective judgement" which is in need of a "Critique". That is to say, the Critique of Judgement seeks to solve the problem of determining whether and how it is possible a priori to judge Nature as being adapted to an end. Moreover, since, such a question is neither one of knowledge nor one of will, it is neither theoretical nor practical. The object of Kant's concern, therefore, is the reflection or the contemplation of Nature through the presupposition of its purposiveness or finality. Here, we are given two ways to proceed: 1) aesthetically, by regarding nature as adapting to the reflecting subject as such, and 2) teleologically, by viewing Nature as having her own finality. Accordingly, Kant divides his attention to each of these kinds of judgments in the two parts of the Critique of Judgement. What I shall concentrate my attention, however, is only to the philosophical significance of Kant's conception of the "aesthetic judgement". And, through the course of this thesis, I shall argue for the consistency and the intelligibility of Kant's theory of taste which, I believe, sheds much light upon the confused parameters of contemporary aesthetics. Also, this thesis is a defense of Kant's theory against Hume's empirical approach. The judgment of the beautiful is not to be confused with that of the agreeable nor the good, since the beautiful lacks any empirical reality as it consists in a delight felt by the agent as he re fleets upon the representation of an object. Thus, a taste judgment is concerned only with the "form" of the object presented in the mind. And, it is in this that the clue to the intelligibility of the purposiveness of aesthetic objects is to be discovered. The purposiveness of the beautiful is a result of its adaptation to the principles which enable its representation. The understanding, whose function is to present objects, are both requisites for the formulation of a taste judgment. As such, both the imagination and the understanding must co-operate with one another in 'harmony' so as to pro duce the feeling--state of pleasure in the beautiful. Furthermore, since the relation to the principles of objective ideation obtains, the ground of "pure" aesthetic judgment points to the "supersensible substrate of humanity" which is the ground of cognition in general. The purposiveness of the aesthetic object is universally communicable, even though any proof by means of concepts is precluded from a claim of taste. And the approach toward the supersensible sub-strate is also what allows a philosopher to be freed from the mere pheno menality of cognition so that he may grasp a more comprehensive view of the whole of human experience. But what would result from such a 'trans cendence' is a subject for future studies.
Download or read book Critique of Pure Reason written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often called Kant's "first critique," this is a foundational work of modern philosophy, one that attempts to define the very nature of reason, and to join the two schools of thought dominant in the late 18th century: that of Empiricism and Rationalism. At the border between thinking subject to religion and realities as the burgeoning sciences were demonstrating at the time, Kant explores ethics, the limits of human knowledge, logic, deduction, observation, and intuition, and in the process laid the groundwork for the modern intellect. First published in 1781, this is required reading for anyone wishing to be considerd well educated. German metaphysician IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) served as a librarian of the Royal Library, a prestigious government position, and as a professor at Knigsberg University. His other works include Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764), Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), and Critique of Practical Reason (1788).
Download or read book A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste written by Martin MacDermot and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Exposition of the Science of Knowledge written by Johann Gottlieb Fichte and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Taste written by Benjamin Errett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From My Little Pony to the Sex Pistols: An engaging exploration of why we love what we love Katy Perry. Wes Anderson. Coldplay. Star Wars. Hamilton. Gilmore Girls. We all have our most and least favorite things. But why? In this smart, funny, and well-researched book, Benjamin Errett brings together the latest findings from the worlds of psychology, criticism, neuroscience, market research, and more to examine what taste really means—and what it can teach us about ourselves. Covering kitsch, nostalgia, snobbery, bad taste, George Michael, and what it means to be “basic,” this is the ultimate read for anyone who devours popular and not-so-popular culture.
Download or read book Critique of Judgement written by Immanuel Kant and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critique of Judgement Immanuel Kant - In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the apparent purposiveness of nature with respect to the highest interests of reason and enlightenment. The work profoundly influenced the artists and writers of the classical and romantic period and the philosophy of Hegel and Schelling. It has remained a central point of reference from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche through to phenomenology, hermeneutics, the Frankfurt School, analytical aesthetics and contemporary critical theory.
Download or read book After Taste written by Slavko Kacunko and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
