Kant's Critique of Judgment seems not to be an obviously unified work. Unlike other attempts to comprehend it as a unity, which treat it as serving either practical or theoretical interests, Kristi Sweet's book posits it as examining a genuinely independent sphere of human life. In her in-depth account of Kant's Critical philosophical system, Sweet argues that the Critique addresses the question: for what may I hope? The answer is given in Kant's account of 'territory,' a region of experience that both underlies and mediates between freedom and nature. Territory forms the context in which purposiveness without a purpose, the Ideal of Beauty, the sensus communis, genius and aesthetic ideas, and Kant's conception of life and proof of God are best interpreted. Encounters in this sphere are shown to refer us to a larger, more cosmic sense of a whole to which both freedom and nature belong.
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Introduction: Out in the Territory; 1. Reason, Hope, and Territory; 2. Reflection, Purposiveness, Metaphysics; 3. 'Life' and the Ideal of Beauty; 4. The sensus communis and the Ground of the Critical System; 5. Genius, Aesthetic Ideas, and a Spiritualized Natural Order; Interlude: Transition to the Critique of Teleological Judgment; 6. The Domain of Nature as System: Ends; 7. Hope and Faith: God in the Critique of Teleological Judgment; Conclusion: To see what good is there.
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An in-depth account of Kant's Critical philosophical system which argues that the third Critique answers the question: for what may I hope?

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ISBN
9781009005326
Publisert
2024-09-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
345 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

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Biographical note

Kristi Sweet is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University. She is the author of Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History (Cambridge, 2013), and numerous essays on Kant's practical philosophy and aesthetics.