Kant: Making Reason Intuitive

ISBN: 9780230506893

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2007-2

页数: 216

定价: $ 118.65

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Kant denies that Reason is intuitive, but demands that we must - in some way - 'make' Reason intuitive, and follow its guidance, particularly in matters of morality. In this book, a group of scholars attempt to analyse and explore this central paradox within Kantian thought. Each essay explores the question from a different perspective - from political philosophy, ethics and religion to science and aesthetics. The essays thus also reformulate the core question in different forms, e.g., how are we to realize the moral good in personal character, political arrangements, or religious institutions? What function do moral examples of good or evil play in our understanding of rational morality according to Kant, or what do Kant's own examples of savages reveal concerning Kant's conception of reason? How do we represent the rational requirement of systematicity and totality for knowledge, if this requirement necessarily transcends our current understanding, and our powers of sensible representation?