The architectonic of reason : purposiveness and systematic unity in Kant's critique of pure reason / Lea Ypi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ypi, Lea, 1979- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Reason.

Human beings.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Purposiveness and systematic unity in Kant's critique of pure reason

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'The Architectonic of Pure Reason', one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character. By focusing on the sources, evolution and function of Kant's concept of purposiveness, this book shows that the idea of purposiveness that Kant endorses in the Critique of Pure Reason is a concept of purposiveness as intelligent design, quite different from the concept of purposiveness as normativity that will become central to his later works.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 7, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-106542-0

0-19-181107-6