Fugate The Teleology of Reason

A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-030648-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 178, 449 Seiten

Reihe: Kantstudien-ErgänzungshefteISSN

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fugate, Courtney D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Deutscher Idealismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1; Abbreviations and the Use of Translations;15
2;Part I: Preliminary Investigations;17
2.1;Chapter 1. Motivations;19
2.1.1;Introduction;19
2.1.1.1;§. 1. Preliminary Sketch of the Telic Structure of Kant
’s System of Philosophy;20
2.1.1.1.1;
§. 1.1. The Teleology of Theoretical Reason;21
2.1.1.1.2;§. 1.2. The Teleology of Pure Practical Reason;25
2.1.1.1.3;
§. 1.3. The Doctrine of Wisdom as the End of the System of Philosophy;29
2.1.1.1.4;§. 1.4. Teleology and the

Transcendental Possibility of the Kantian System of Philosophy;31
2.1.1.1.5;§. 1.5. The Unity of Reason;36
2.1.1.2;§. 2. The Teleological Tradition Before an d After Kant;40
2.1.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Teleology in the Philosophies of Kant’s German Predecessors;46
2.1.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Legacy of Kant’s Teleology of Reason in Fichte;49
2.1.1.3;§. 3. Current Views on the Role of Teleology in Kant’s Cr itical Philosophy;58
2.1.1.3.1;§. 3.1. Reactions to the PopularView;63
2.1.1.3.2;§. 3.2. Teleology in special studies of Kant’s philosophy;67
2.1.2;Conclusion;72
2.2;Chapter 2. Teleology: Rudiments of a Theory;73
2.2.1;Introduction;73
2.2.2;Teleology: Not Reducible to a Pattern of Behavior;76
2.2.3;Two Examples of this Tendency in Studies of the History of Philosohpy: Bennett and Couturat;80
2.2.3.1;
§. 1. Teleological Inferences: From Pattern to Purpose;84
2.2.3.1.1;§. 1.1. Teleological and Non-Teleological Inferences;88
2.2.3.1.2;§. 1.2. Traditional Teleological Arguments for God’s Existence;91
2.2.3.1.3;§. 1.3. Concluding Reflections;96
2.2.3.2;
§. 2. Teleological Explanations: From Purpose to Pattern;97
2.2.3.2.1;§. 2.1. Maupertuis and the Universal Teleology of Nature;104
2.2.3.2.2;§. 2.2. Purposes as Laws of Behavior;111
2.2.3.2.3;§. 2.3. Skepticism Regarding Explanation;113
2.2.3.2.4;§. 2.4. Teleological Explanations: Concluding Reflections;115
2.2.3.3;§. 3. The Essential and Inessential Characteristics of Teleological Entities;119
3;Part II: The Teleology of Human Knowledge;125
3.1;Introduction to Part II;127
3.2;Chapter 3. The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Exp
erience;129
3.2.1;Introduction;129
3.2.1.1;§. 1. Wolff’s Ontological Logic and the “acumen pervidendi universalia in singularibus”;133
3.2.1.1.1;§. 1.1. Wolff’s Logic of Experience;135
3.2.1.1.2;§. 1.2. The Wolffian Roots of Kant’s Categories;139
3.2.1.1.3;§. 1.3. The Skill of Perceiving the Universal in the Particular;142
3.2.1.1.4;§. 1.4. Wolff and Kant on the Possibility of Experience;143
3.2.1.2;§. 2. Adolph Friedrich Hoffmann and Christian August Crusius;146
3.2.1.2.1;§. 2.1. The Logic of Experience According to Hoffmann and Crusius;153
3.2.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Possibility of Experience and the Limits of Human Knowledge;157
3.2.1.3;§. 3. Anticipating Kant’s Account of Experience;159
3.2.2;Conclusion: The Nature of Kant’s Advance;163
3.3;Chapter 4. Teleology in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic;164
3.3.1;Introduction;164
3.3.1.1;§. 1. The Problem of the “Critique”: How are Synthetic Judgments a priori Possible?;165
3.3.1.1.1;§. 1.1. The Need for Synthetic Judgments a priori and the Structure of Knowledge;168
3.3.1.1.2;§. 1.2. Preliminary Outline of the Argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic;177
3.3.1.2;§. 2. Space and Time as Grounds of the Formal Perfection of Sensible Objects;183
3.3.1.2.1;§. 2.1. The Objective Formal Perfection of Space;187
3.3.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Transcendental Aesthetic: Comments on the Text;191
3.3.1.3;§. 3. The Transcendental Analytic;193
3.3.1.3.1;§. 3.1. The Metaphysical Deduction;194
3.3.1.3.2;§. 3.2. The Transcendental Deduction;197
3.3.1.3.3;§. 3.3. The Deduction in the B-edition;201
3.3.1.4;§. 4. Summary;212
3.4;Chapter 5. Teleology in the Transcendental Dialectic;217
3.4.1;Introduction;217
3.4.1.1;§. 1. The Relation of the Analytic to the Dialectic;221
3.4.1.2;§. 2. The Ideas of Pure Reason;228
3.4.1.3;§. 3. The Regulative Principles of Pure Reason;240
3.4.1.4;§. 4. The Transcendental Death of Physico-Theology;251
3.4.2;Conclusion;254
3.4.3;General Conclusion to Part II;255
4;Part III: The Teleology of Freedom;257
4.1;Introduction to Part III;259
4.2;Chapter 6. The Teleology of Freedom: The Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the Analytic;264
4.2.1;Introduction;264
4.2.1.1;§. 1. Three Types of Freedom;270
4.2.1.2;§. 2. Our Three Wills;277
4.2.1.3;§. 3. Moral Self-Consciousness;292
4.2.1.4;§. 4. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the GMS;294
4.2.1.5;§. 5. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the KpV;301
4.2.2;Conclusion;306
4.3;Chapter 7. Kant on Rational Faith as an Expression of Autonomy;308
4.3.1;Introduction;308
4.3.1.1;§. 1. Problems and Previous Interpretations;311
4.3.1.1.1;§. 1.1. Beck’s Interpretation;312
4.3.1.1.2;§. 1.2. Wood’s Interpretation
;316
4.3.1.1.2.1;§. 1.2.1. A First Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation;317
4.3.1.1.2.2;§. 1.2.2. A Second Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation;318
4.3.1.1.2.3;§. 1.2.3. A Third Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation;320
4.3.1.1.2.4;§. 1.2.4. A Fourth Difficulty with Woods Interpretation;321
4.3.1.2;§. 2. Kant’s Argument;326
4.3.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Virtue as Moral Strength of Character;327
4.3.1.2.2;§. 2.2. How Rational Belief in God’s Existence Increases the Moral Incentive;331
4.3.1.2.3;§. 2.3. Textual Analysis;335
4.3.1.2.3.1;§. 2.3.1. The Highest Good in KpV;335
4.3.1.2.3.2;§. 2.3.2. The Highest Good in the KrV;343
4.3.1.2.3.3;§. 2.3.3. The Highest Good in the KU;344
4.3.1.2.3.4;§. 2.3.4. The Highest Good in TP;345
4.3.2;Summary of the Argument of this Section;346
4.3.2.1;§. 3. Practical-Dogmatic Metaphysics;347
4.3.3;Conclusion;351
4.4;Excursus: The Life of Reason;353
4.4.1;Introduction;353
4.4.1.1;§. 1. From Morality to Life: Three Conditions of the Possibility of the Realization of a Moral World;355
4.4.1.2;§. 2. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life;361
4.4.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Kant’s Constitutive Concept of Life;363
4.4.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Life;364
4.4.1.2.3;§. 2.3. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life: How the Constitutive Concept of Life is Generalized to Include the Feeling of Beauty;369
4.4.2;Conclusion;373
4.5;Chapter 8. The Teleological Unity of Reason and Kant’s Idea of Philosophy;376
4.5.1;Introduction;376
4.5.1.1;§. 1. The Unity of Reason;378
4.5.1.1.1;§. 1.1. The Unity of Reason: First Reconstruction;382
4.5.1.1.2;§. 1.2. Regulative and Constitutive Principles;390
4.5.1.1.3;§. 1.3. The Unity of Reason: Second Reconstruction;396
4.5.1.2;§. 2. Kant’s Concept of Philosophy;403
4.5.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Philosophy “in sensu scholastico” and “in sensu cosmico”;406
4.5.1.2.2;§. 2.2. Unity of Reason and the History of Philosophy;409
4.5.2;Conclusion;412
4.5.3;Brief Outline of Kant’s Conception of Teleology;414
5;Bibliography;420
5.1;I. Translations Consulted;420
5.2;II. Primary Sources;420
5.3;III. Secondary Sources;426
6;Register;441

Über Autor(innen)

Fugate, Courtney D.
Courtney D. Fugate, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.