Kant's reason : the unity of reason and the limits of comprehension in Kant / Karl Schafer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schafer, Karl (Philosophy teacher), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reason--Philosophy.

Reason.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume develops a novel interpretation of Kant's conception of reason and its philosophical significance. Karl Schafer argues that theoretical and practical reason are manifestations of a single capacity for theoretical and practical understanding, illuminating Kant's conception of the role of reason in philosophical inquiry.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Abbreviations of Kant's Works

Abbreviations of Hegel's Works

Abbreviations of Hume's Works

Introduction: The Unity of Reason in Kant and Today

a. The "Unity of Reason" in Kant

b. Explaining the Unity of Reason-Primacy and Unity

c. The Primacy of the Practical and Reason's Ends and Interests

d. The Unity of Reason and the Unity of Comprehension (and Autonomy)

e. Summary of the Chapters to Follow

f. A Note about the Historical Development of Kant's Thought

Part I. Kant's Rational Constitutivism

1. Transcendental Philosophy and the Self-Consciousness of Reason

a. A Look Ahead: Kant on the Aims of Philosophical Inquiry

b. Philosophical Principles and Rational Powers

c. The Project of the Critical Philosophy and the Autonomy of Reason

d. The Critical Project and the Foundational Role of Self-Consciousness

e. The Limits of Self-Consciousness: Capacities, Acts, and Substances

f. The Plausibility of a Capacities-First or Powers-First Approach Today

2. Self-Consciousness, Cognition, and the Taking Condition

a. Kant's Conception of Cognition

b. Cognition, Knowledge, and Belief in Kant

c. Cognition: Theoretical and Practical

d. Cognition, Self-Consciousness, and the "Taking Condition"

Appendix: Alternative Accounts of Cognition in Kant

3. Kant's Rational Constitutivism

a. Practical Reason's Self-Consciousness and the Categorical Imperative

b. Principles, Imperatives, and the Faktum der Vernunft

c. Interlude: Imperatives and the Normativity of Logic

d. Rational Constitutivism

e. Constitutivism, Shmagency, and Why Be Rational?

Part II. The Unity of Reason

4. Reason: The Capacity for Comprehension

a. Reason: The Faculty for (Mediate) Inference.

b. Reason: The Faculty of Principles

c. Reason as the Capacity for Comprehension

d. Comprehension, "Understanding", and "Knowledge"

e. The Modesty of Reason as the Capacity for Comprehension

f. The Unity of Reason and the Unity of Comprehension

5. Theoretical Reason's Supreme Principle and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

a. One Faculty, Many Guises

b. The Logical Maxim

c. The Supreme Principle of Reason in Its Theoretical Use

d. The Relationship between the Logical Maxim and the Supreme Principle

e. Two Arguments from the Logical Maxim to the Supreme Principle

f. The Status of the Supreme Principle and the Critique of Metaphysics

g. Further Complications

6. Practical Reason's Supreme Principle, the Moral Law, and the Highest Good

a. The Supreme Principle in a Practical Context: Universal Law

b. The Supreme Principle in a Practical Context: Humanity and Autonomy

c. Interlude: Is Kant's Ethics Too Individualist, or Not Individualist Enough?

d. Transition: The Maxims of Common Understanding

e. A Systematic Presentation of Reason's Principle

f. The Ultimate Object of Human Comprehension and the Highest Good

7. The Autonomy of Reason and the Capacity for Autonomy

a. Kant's Conception of Capacities as Autonomous

b. Autonomy and Practical Comprehension

c. Autonomy and the Self-Comprehension of Reason

d. Comprehension and the Capacity for Autonomous Action

e. Comprehension as a Guide to Autonomy

Conclusion: Reason, Reasons, and the Future of the Critical Project

a. Generalized Longuenessianism

b. Reasons-First or Reason-First

c. Practical Understanding as a Tool for Social and Political Critique

d. Realizing Reason-The Future of the Critical Project?

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Schafer, Karl Kant's Reason

ISBN:

0-19-196459-X

0-19-269485-5

0-19-269484-7