Kant : making reason intuitive / edited by Kyriaki Goudeli, Pavlos Kontos and Ioli Patellis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goudeli, Kyriaki, 1962-

Kontos, Pavlos.

Patellē, Iolē.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Reason.

Intuition.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xv, 197 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Kant denies that Reason is intuitive, but demands that we must - in some way - 'make' Reason intuitive, and follow its guidance, particularly in matters of morality. In this book, a group of scholars attempt to analyse and explore this central paradox within Kantian thought. Each essay explores the question from a different perspective - from political philosophy, ethics and religion to science and aesthetics.

The essays thus also reformulate the core question in different forms. For example, how are we to realize the moral good in personal character, political arrangements or religious institutions? What function do moral examples of good or evil play in our understanding of rational morality according to Kant, or what do Kant's own examples of savages reveal concerning Kant's conception of reason? How do we represent the rational requirement if systematicity and totality for knowledge, if this requirement necessarily transcends our current understanding, and our powers of sensible representation?

Contents:

1 Practical Schematism, Teleology and the Unity of the Metaphysics of Morals / Gary Banham 1

2 The Transition Problem in Kant's Opus Postumum / Howard Caygill 16

3 Self-Submission and Mutual Domination: Constructions of Marriage and Gender in Kant and Fichte / Georges Faraklas 28

4 Concept and Intuition in Kant's Philosophy of Religion / Maximilian Forschner 43

5 The Categories of the Good as Categories of Moral Action / Pavlos Kontos 62

6 Kant: Sciences, Systems and Organisms / Ioli Patellis 77

7 On the Logic of the Realization of Reason in Society and History / Kosmas Psychopedis 97

8 'Fact of Reason' and 'Natural Human Reason': On Kant's Notion of Moral Experience / Konstantinos Sargentis 113

9 The Problem of Philosophical Knowledge in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: How to Make Theoretical Reason Intuitive / Stelios Virvidakis 129

10 The Abject Root: Kant and the Problem of Representing Evil / Jason M. Wirth 146

11 Negative Presentation: The Role of the Imagination in the Mathematically and the Dynamically Sublime / Georg Xiropaidis 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230506895

9780230506893

OCLC:

69021069