Reality and Negation - Kant's Principle of Anticipations of Perception: An Investigation of its Impact on the Post-Kantian Debate

265 Pages·2011·2.59 MB·English

by  Marco Giovanelli (auth.)

Reality and negation – Kant’s PRinciPle
of anticiPations of PeRcePtion
studies in german idealism
Series Editor:
Reinier Munk, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Advisory Editorial Board:
frederick Beiser, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
daniel dahlstrom, Boston University, U.S.A.
george di giovanni, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Paul guyer, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
detlev Pätzold, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
andrea Poma, University of Torino, Italy
VolUMe 11
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Reality and
negation – Kant’s
PRinciPle of
anticiPations
of PeRcePtion
an inVestigation of its iMPact
on the Post-Kantian deBate
by
MaRco gioVanelli
dr. Marco giovanelli
Università di torino
Piazza s. giulia 2
10124 torino
italy
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issn 1571-4764
isBn 978-94-007-0064-2 e-isBn 978-94-007-0065-9
doi 10.1007/978-94-007-0065-9
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Abbreviations
original german texts (abbreviations are in alphabetical order)1
aa K ant, immanuel. Kant’s gesammelte Schriften. eds. Preussische akademie
der Wissenschaften, Berlin-Brandenburgische akademie der Wissenschaften
and akademie der Wissenschaften in göttingen (Berlin: Reimer, 1900)
cgW cassirer, ernst. Gesammelte Werke. ed. Birgit Recki (hamburg: Meiner, 1998)
cW cohen, hermann. Werke. ed. helmut holzhey (hildesheim: olms, 1977)
fga fichte, Johann gottlieb. Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften. eds. Reinhard lauth, hans Jacob and hans gliwitzky
(stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 1962)
fss fries, Jakob friedrich. Sämtliche Schriften. eds. gert König and lutz
geldsetzer (aalen: scientia Verlag, 1967)
gM leibniz, gottfried Wilhelm. Leibnizens mathematische Schriften. ed. carl
immanuel gerhardt (halle: schmidt, 1850)
gP leibniz, gottfried Wilhelm. Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz. ed. carl immanuel gerhardt (Berlin: Weidmann, 1875)
hKa schelling, friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe.
eds. hans Michael Baumgartner, Wilhelm g. Jacobs, hermann Krings and
hermann Zeltner (stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 1976)
hsW herbart, Johann friedrich. Sämtliche Werke. eds. Karl Kehrbach and otto
flügel. neudruck ed (aalen: scientia Verlag, 1964)
hW hegel, georg Wilhelm friedrich. Werke in zwanzig Bänden. eds. eva
Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel (frankfurt, Main: suhrkamp, 1969)
MgW Maimon, salomon. Gesammelte Werke. ed. Valerio Verra. Reprogr. nachdr.
ed (hildesheim: olms, 1965)
sW schelling, friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von. Sämmtliche Werke. ed. Karl
friedrich august schelling (stuttgart, augsburg: J.g. cotta, 1856)
1Unless a reference is provided to an existing english translation, all quotes referring to the
original german texts are my translation.
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viii abbreviations
Most frequently cited english translation
A Kant, immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason, tr. Paul guyer and allen W. Wood
(cambridge, new york: cambridge University Press, 1998)
B Kant, immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason, tr. Paul guyer and allen W. Wood
(cambridge, new york: cambridge University Press, 1998)
Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................... xi
1 From the Anticipations of Perception to the Dynamic
Conception of Matter ................................................................................ 1
1.1 anticipation as A Priori Knowledge ............................................... 1
1.2 Perception and sensation ................................................................. 5
1.3 the strangeness of the ‘anticipations’ ............................................ 7
1.4 the Quantity of Quality: degree or intensive Magnitude ............... 9
1.5 the two formulations of the Principle ........................................... 16
1.6 the category of Reality ................................................................... 19
1.7 the distinction Between Realitas Phaenomenon
and Realitas noumenon ................................................................... 23
1.8 the critique of the concept of gradus Perfectionis ....................... 26
1.9 from the ontological Meaning to the Physical Meaning
of the concept of degree ................................................................. 28
1.10 force and sensation ......................................................................... 30
1.11 the dynamic conception of Matter ................................................ 34
2 From Real Opposition to the Problem of Change ................................. 41
2.1 logical opposition and Real opposition ........................................ 41
2.2 Quantitative and Qualitative opposition .......................................... 50
2.3 the Problem of change ................................................................... 52
2.4 change and Real opposition ........................................................... 54
2.5 change as Quantitative Variation..................................................... 57
2.6 Maimon’s theory of differentials ................................................... 59
2.7 change and synthetic Unity ............................................................ 66
3 The Anticipations of Perception in Post-Kantian Idealism ................... 71
3.1 fichte and the opposition Between the i and the not−i ................. 71
3.2 schelling and the Philosophy of nature .......................................... 82
3.3 the Problem of Quality and the opposition between
Positive and negative ....................................................................... 100
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