The teleology of reason : a study of the structure of Kant's critical philosophy / Courtney D. Fugate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fugate, Courtney D., author.

Series:

Kantstudien. Ergänzungshefte ; Band 178.

Kantstudien. Ergänzungshefte, 0340-6059 ; Band 178

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Teleology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant's critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of its fundamental arguments and provide a key to understanding its unity. It thus aims, through an examination of each of Kant's major writings, to provide a detailed interpretation of his claim that philosophy in the true sense must consist of a teleologia rationis humanae.The author argues that Kant's critical philosophy forged a new link between traditional teleological concepts and the basic structure of rationality, one that would later inform the dynamic conception of reason at the heart of German Idealism. The process by which this was accomplished began with Kant's development of a uniquely teleological conception of systematic unity already in the precritical period. The individual chapters of this work attempt to show how Kant adapted and refined this conception of systematic unity so that it came to form the structural basis for the critical philosophy.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations and the Use of Translations

Part I: Preliminary Investigations

Chapter 1 Motivations

Chapter 2 Teleology: Rudiments of a Theory

Part II: The Teleology of Human Knowledge

Chapter 3 The Historical Roots of Kant's Concept of Experience

Chapter 4 Teleology in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic

Chapter 5 Teleology in the Transcendental Dialectic

Part III: The Teleology of Freedom

Introduction to Part III

Chapter 6 The Teleology of Freedom: The Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the Analytic

Chapter 7 Kant on Rational Faith as an Expression of Autonomy

Chapter 8 The Teleological Unity of Reason and Kant's Idea of Philosophy

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ISBN:

9783110481587

3110481588

9783110306484

3110306484

9783110367911

3110367912

OCLC:

881289220