Kant on the Human Standpoint

318 Pages·2005·2.039 MB·English

by  Béatrice Longuenesse

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KANT ON THE HUMAN STANDPOINT
In this collection of essays B´eatrice Longuenesse considers three main
aspects of Kant’s philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics of nat-
ure,hismoralphilosophy,andhisaesthetictheory,underoneunifying
principle: Kant’s conception of our capacity to form judgments. She
argues that the elements which make up our cognitive access to the
world – what Kant calls the ‘‘human standpoint’’ – have an equally
importantroletoplayinourmoralevaluationsandouraestheticjudg-
ments.HerdiscussionrangesoverKant’saccountofourrepresentations
of space and time, his conception of the logical forms of judgments,
sufficient reason, causality, community, God, freedom, morality, and
beautyinnatureandart.Herbookwillappealtoallwhoareinterested
inKantandhisthought.
Be´atrice Longuenesse is Professor of Philosophy at New York
University. Her numerous publications include Kant and the Capacity to
Judge(1998).

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KANT ON THE HUMAN
STANDPOINT
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BEATRICE LONGUENESSE
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments pageix
Introduction 1
PARTI Revisitingthecapacitytojudge
1 Kant’scategories,andthecapacitytojudge 17
2 Synthesis,logicalforms,andtheobjectsofourordinary
experience 39
3 Synthesisandgivenness 64
PARTII ThehumanstandpointintheTranscendental
Analytic
4 Kantonaprioriconcepts:themetaphysicaldeduction
ofthecategories 81
5 Kant’sdeconstructionoftheprincipleofsufficientreason 117
6 Kantoncausality:whatwashetryingtoprove? 143
7 Kant’sstandpointonthewhole:disjunctivejudgment,
community,andtheThirdAnalogyofExperience 184
PARTIII Thehumanstandpointinthecriticalsystem
8 Thetranscendentalideal,andtheunityofthecriticalsystem 211
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viii CONTENTS
9 Moraljudgmentasajudgmentofreason 236
10 Kant’sleadingthreadintheAnalyticoftheBeautiful 265
Bibliography 291
Indexofcitations 297
Indexofsubjects 300