Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

187 Pages·2018·2.508 MB·English

by  Gualtiero Lorini, Robert B. Louden (eds.)

KNOWLEDGE, MORALS
AND PRACTICE IN KANT’S
ANTHROPOLOGY
EDITED BY
GUALTIERO LORINI AND
ROBERT B. LOUDEN
Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s
Anthropology
Gualtiero Lorini · Robert B. Louden
Editors
Knowledge, Morals
and Practice in Kant’s
Anthropology
Editors
Gualtiero Lorini Robert B. Louden
Technische Universität Berlin University of Southern Maine
Berlin, Germany Portland, ME, USA
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ontents
Introduction 1
Gualtiero Lorini and Robert B. Louden
Part I Sources and Influences in Kant’s Definition of
the Knowledge Concerning the Human Being
Elucidations of the Sources of Kant’s Anthropology 11
Holly L. Wilson
Anthropology—A Legacy from Wolff to Kant? 29
Jean-François Goubet
Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role
of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant 43
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero
The Rules for Knowing the Human Being: Baumgarten’s
Presence in Kant’s Anthropology 63
Gualtiero Lorini
Kant on the Vocation and Formation of the Human Being 81
Ansgar Lyssy
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Part II The Peculiarities of Anthropological Knowledge
in Kant: Metaphysics, Morals, Psychology, Politics
The Moral Dimensions of Kant’s Anthropology 101
Robert B. Louden
“Ein Spiel der Sinnlichkeit, durch den Verstand geordnet:”
Kant’s Concept of Poetry and the Anthropological
Revolution of Human Imagination 117
Fernando M. F. Silva
Somatology: Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 133
Francesco Valerio Tommasi
Controlling Mental Disorder: Kant’s Account of Mental
Illness in the Anthropology Writings 147
Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Index 163
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otes on ontributors
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero received his Ph.D. at the Ca’
Foscari University of Venice, where he continuously worked as a
research fellow and adjunct professor (2010–2012: Philosophy of
Language; 2013–2014: Moral Philosophy). In 2013–2014, he obtained
two national scientific habilitations as associate professor: Philosophy
of Language and History of Philosophy. He is member of Sodalitas
Leibnitiana, Société d’Etudes Leibniziennes de Langue Française,
and Christian-Wolff-Gesellschaft für die Philosophie der Aufklärung.
He is currently fixed-term researcher (Italian Law n. 240/10) at the
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of the University
Ca’ Foscari Venice. His publications count two books (respectively,
on Leibniz and Wolff), four edited volumes and several articles and
essays. His main research areas embrace early modern philosophy, the-
ory of knowledge, metaphysics, mind–body problem, natural laws,
theories of linguistic meaning, rational theology, and philosophy of med-
icine. Selected publications: “Bodies of Inference: Christian Wolff’s
Epistemology of the Life Sciences and Medicine”, Perspectives on Science,
24/3, 2015, 361–379; “Pure Intellect, Brain Traces, and Language:
Leibniz and the Foucher-Malebranche Debate”. In Daniel Garber and
Steven Nadler (Eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume
V, oxford: oxford University Press, 2010, 115–145; Conoscenza simbol-
ica. Pensiero e linguaggio in Christian Wolff e nella prima età moderna,
Hildesheim, Zürich, and New York: olms, 2009.
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Jean-François Goubet was fellow of the École Normale Supérieure de
Fontenay/Saint-Cloud and is currently professor at the University of
Artois, where he leads the section Recherche en Éducation Compétences
Interactions Formations Éthique Savoirs (RECIFES) of the depart-
ment Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (SHS). He is agrégé in philos-
ophy. His research is focused on German Classical Philosophy and on
Philosophy of Education. After his dissertation on Fichte’s Doctrine of
Science in 2000, he has concentrated on German academic philosophy
from Wolff to the Post-Kantianism. In this regard, he has dedicated a
work to Herbart, Schopenhauer, and Natorp. His habilitation as a
research supervisor, received in 2009 at the “ENS” de Lyon, allowed
him to cross logical and systematical researches on the main thinkers of
the German Classical Philosophy (Wolff, Meier, Kant, Fichte, Herbart)
with inquiries into the education in general and the training of teach-
ers in particular. Selected publications: “La traduction de la métaphy-
sique allemande du XVIIIe siècle”, Revue philosophique de la France et
de l’étranger, 130/4, 2005, 523–536; Die Psychologie Christian Wolffs.
Systematische und historische Untersuchungen (Ed. with o.-P. Rudolph),
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004; “Fondement, principes et utilité de la con-
naissance. Sur la notion wolffienne de système”, Archives de Philosophie,
65/1, 2002, pp. 81–103.
Gualtiero Lorini is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Catholic University
of Milan, Italy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the
Institute of Philosophy of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
He is a member of the Kant-Gesellschaft and the North American
Kant Society, and the author of the volume Fonti e lessico dell’ontologia
kantiana. I corsi di metafisica (1762-1795) (2017). His research inter-
ests include German idealism, philosophical anthropology in eight-
eenth-century Germany, and the interactions between Neo-Kantianism
and Phenomenology. Selected publications: Fonti e Lessico dell’Onto-
logia Kantiana. I Corsi di Metafisica (1762–1795), Pisa: ETS, 2017; Il
Sistema della metafisica nella didattica kantiana, Milano: Alboversorio,
2015; “The Contribution of Kant’s Lectures to a Better Comprehension
of the Architectonic”. In B. Dörflinger, C. La Rocca, R. Louden, and
U. Rancan (Eds.), Kant’s Lectures, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter,
2015, 233–246; “The origins of the Transcendental Subjectivity: on
Baumgarten’s Psychology”, Philosophica, 44, 2014, 107–126; “Raum
und Zeit als Bedingungen für Kants neue Definition der ontologie”.
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In C. La Rocca, A. Ferrarin and S. Bacin (Eds.), Kant und die Philosophie
in weltbürgerlicher Absicht, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2013,
659–668.
oRCID Number: 0000-0001-6507-4367 [http://orcid.org/0000-
0001-6507-4367], http://tu-berlin.academia.edu/GualtieroLorini,
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gualtiero_Lorini/publications.
Robert B. Louden is Distinguished Professor and Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA. A former pres-
ident of the North American Kant Society (NAKS), Louden is also
co-editor and translator of two volumes in the Cambridge Edition of
the Works of Immanuel Kant. Selected publications: Why Be Moral?
(de Gruyter, 2015—co-edited with Beatrix Himmelmann), Kant’s
Human Being (oxford University Press, 2011), The World We Want
(oUP, 2007), Kant’s Impure Ethics (oUP, 2000), The Greeks and Us
(University of Chicago Press, 1996—co-edited with Paul Schollmeier),
Morality and Moral Theory (1992). https://usm.maine.edu/phi/rob-
ert-louden, https://works.bepress.com/robert_louden/.
Ansgar Lyssy received his Ph.D. in 2008 at the Technische Universität
Berlin. In 2008–2010, he was Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at University
of Hagen. In 2011, he was Research Assistant at the G. W. Leibniz-
Library Hannover, working on the Leibniz-bibliography. In 2012
(summer term), he worked as Fixed-term Professor for the History of
Philosophy at LMU Munich, substituting for Prof. Dr. Günter Zöller
(Vertretungsprofessur). Between January 2013 and June 2014, he
was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université de Montréal, invited by
Prof. François Duchesneau and Prof. Christian Leduc, funded by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Since
2014, he is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München, where he carries on a DFG-project concern-
ing Mankind and Humanity in the German Enlightenment. His
main research focuses are modern philosophy (in particular Leibniz’s
thought and the Leibnizian tradition), Kant’s philosophy, and the
Classical German Philosophy with a particular interest on anthropo-
logical themes. Selected publications: “Kant für Jedermann. Über F.
A. Bouterweks Versuch, Kants kritische Philosophie populär darzus-
tellen”. In C. Binkelmann, and N. Schneidereit (Eds.), Denken fürs
Volk—Formen von Gemeinsinn in der deutschen Popularphilosophie,
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014, 139–167; “Mit und
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gegen Hume: Skeptische und antiskeptische Argumente bei Kant”. In
E. Ficara (Ed.), Begründung der Philosophie im Deutschen Idealismus,
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011, 155–171; “Der Begriff
der Menschheit zwischen Aufklärung und Globalisierung”. In H. Busche
(Ed.), Philosophische Aspekte der Globalisierung, Würzburg: Königshausen
& Neumann, 2009, 121–152.
Nuria Sánchez Madrid is Associate Professor at the Faculty of
Philosophy of the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain), where she
lectures on matters such as Philosophical Anthropology, Contemporary
Philosophy, History of Philosophical Ideas and Italian Thought. She is
executive secretary of the journals Isegoría and Con-Textos Kantianos.
She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Marília (UNESP,
Brazil) and Pisa, and she lectured within the Erasmus Program at
the following Universities: Bogaziçi, Patras, Padova, Mainz, Paris-IV
Sorbonne and Marburg. She is coordinator of the UCM Research Group
“Normativity, Emotions, Discourse and Society (GINEDIS)” and exter-
nal member of the CFUL (Lisbon), the Institute of Philosophy of the
University of oporto and the Research Group IRePH of the University
of Paris ouest. Selected publications: “The Prudence [Klugheit]
and the Rules for Guiding Life. The Development of the Pragmatic
Normativity in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (Collins, Parow,
Friedländer, Mesnchenkunde, Busolt)”. In U. Rancan, B. Dörflinger,
R. Louden, C. La Rocca (Eds.), Kant’s Lectures, Berlin and New York:
de Gruyter, 2015, 163–176; “Instinct and Bad Habits of Reason.
Metaphors of Animals in Kant’s Practical Philosophy”. In P. Kauark,
V. Figueiredo, M. Ruffing, and G. Cecchinato (Eds.), Kant and the
Metaphors of Reason, Hildesheim: olms, 2015, 455–470; “A Linnaeus
of Human Nature: The Pragmatic Deduction of Unconscious Thought
in Kant’s Lectures of Anthropology”. In P. Giordanetti, R. Pozzo, and M.
Sgarbi (Eds.), Kant and the Philosophy of Unconscious, Berlin and New
York: de Gruyter, 2012, 177–232.
Fernando M. F. Silva received his Ph.D. in 2016. His dissertation dealt
with Novalis’ early philosophical writings, namely the author’s Fichte-
Studien, written in 1795/96. He has been a member of the Centre of
Philosophy of the University of Lisbon since 2007. Also member of the
Kant-Gesellschaft, and the Association “Poetics of Selfhood”. He is
currently beginning his postdoctoral course on Kant’s Anthropology,
namely Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (1772–1796). His research