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 Kant s Theory of Taste written by Henry E. Allison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. The first part of the book analyses Kant's conception of reflective judgment and its connections with both empirical knowledge and judgments of taste. The second and third parts treat two questions that Allison insists must be kept distinct: the normativity of pure judgments of taste, and the moral and systematic significance of taste. The fourth part considers two important topics often neglected in the study of Kant's aesthetics: his conceptions of fine art, and the sublime.
Download or read book Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy written by J.J. Drummond and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook aims to show the great fertility of the phenomenological tradition for the study of ethics and moral philosophy by collecting a set of papers on the contributions to ethical thought by major phenomenological thinkers. The contributing experts explore the thought of the major ethical thinkers in the first two generations of the phenomenological tradition and direct the reader toward the most relevant primary and secondary materials.
Download or read book Time Driven written by Adrian Johnston and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud outlines two types of conflict; that between drives and reality; and that between the drives themselves. Adrian Johnston identifies a third; the conflict embedded within each and every drive.
Download or read book Bakhtin s Theory of the Literary Chronotope written by Nele Bemong and published by Academia PressScientific Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is the first international study exclusively dedicated to Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope
Download or read book Critique of Pure Reason written by Immanuel Kant and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts ever written. Like Copernicus, Kant dared to question the ordinary perspective from which we habitually view the world. Kant's moderate form of skepticism is known as "transcendental idealism," and its primary tenet is that we cannot know things as they are in themselves because we only know things as they appear to us. His thesis had a monumental influence on the culture of the last two centuries, giving rise to cultural movements and theoretical approaches including: German Idealism, Romanticism, Modernism, Marxism, Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and even Quantum Physics.
Download or read book Towards an Igbo Metaphysics written by Emmanuel M. P. Edeh and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Kantian Subject written by Tamar Japaridze and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the importance of Kant's aesthetic theory must be understood in the context of a radical critique of subjectivity.
Download or read book Immanuel Kant s Critique of Pure Reason written by Immanuel Kant and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Taste in Kant s Theory of Cognition written by Hannah Ginsborg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. This title, originally a Ph. D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in July 1988, grew out of an interest in the foundations of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Believing that the idea of the primacy of judgment was an important one for understanding more recent issues in analytic philosophy, the author started to think about its historical antecedents. By examining Kant’s Critique of Judgement, Ginsborg explores the notion of a judgment of taste, as a judgment which has intersubjective validity without being objectively valid, and therefore bear’s directly on the notion of the primacy of judgment as an aspect of Kant's account of objectivity. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy.
Download or read book The Hidden Philosophy of Hannah Arendt written by Margaret Betz Hull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central argument of this book is that Hannah Arendt's deserved place in the history of Western philosophy has been overlooked, and recognition of her contribution is long overdue. In part a result of Arendt's own insistence on calling herself a 'political thinker' throughout her career, this is also due to a common tendency in philosophy to denigrate the political. This book explores the indisputable philosophical dimensions of her work. In particular, it examines Arendt's theoretical commitment to recognizing humanity as a plurality, which avoids the common mistake in Western philosophy of theoretically overemphasizing the self in isolation. Arendt's own personal dealings with aspects of her identity, namely her Jewishness and her womanhood, work to inform us of this position against solipsism.
Download or read book Kant s Theory of Freedom written by Henry E. Allison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers critical literature on the subject.
Download or read book Critique of Pure Reason written by Immanuel Kant and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Kant s Theory of Normativity written by Konstantin Pollok and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Konstantin Pollok offers the first book-length analysis of Kant's theory of normativity that covers foundational issues in theoretical and practical philosophy as well as aesthetics. Interpreting Kant's 'critical turn' as a normative turn, he argues that Kant's theory of normativity is both original and radical: it departs from the perfectionist ideal of early modern rationalism, and arrives at an unprecedented framework of synthetic a priori principles that determine the validity of our judgments. Pollok examines the hylomorphism in Kant's theory of normativity and relates Kant's idea of our reason's self-legislation to the 'natural right' tradition, revealing Kant's debt to his predecessors as well as his relevance to contemporary debates on normativity. This book will appeal to academic researchers and advanced students of Kant, early modern philosophy and intellectual history.
