The Faculties of the Human Mind and the Case of Moral Feeling in Kant's Philosophy.

This work shows the inconsistencies between the psychological and anthropological ways of interpreting Kant's pure philosophy. It is argued that Kant's philosophy can be understood only in the context of his theory of the faculties, including their purely formal and rational use. Against t...

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Main Author: Falduto, Antonino
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
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ISBN:9783110370553
3110370557
9783110351149
3110351145
9783110350029
3110350025
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Chapter 1 The Concept of Human Mental Faculties; 1.1 Some Occurrences of the Term Vermogen from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; 1.2 The German Term Vermogen during Kant's time; 1.3 The 1773/1775 Berlin Academy Prize Competition: Examen des deux facultes primitives de l'ame, celle de connoTtre et celle de sentir; 1.4 Kant's Concept of Gemut and the Epigenetical Reading; 1.5 The Concept of Human Mental Faculties: Some Concluding Remarks; Chapter 2 The Mind and Its Faculties in Contemporary Kant Scholarship; 2.1 Brook's Kantian Mind Functionalism and the Transcendental Argument.
  • 2.2 Hatfield's Innatist Reading of Kant's Faculties2.3 Some Brief Observations on the Distinction between Rational and Empirical Psychology and the Supposed Place of Psychology within Transcendental Philosophy; 2.4 Kitcher's Kantian Transcendental Psychology; 2.5 The Mind and Its Faculties in Contemporary Kant Scholarship: Some Concluding Remarks; Chapter 3 Anthropology and Kant's Study of the Faculties of the Human Mind; 3.1 A Brief Historical Overview of the Relation between Pragmatic Anthropology and Empirical Psychology; 3.2 Anthropology as a Pragmatic Discipline.
  • 3.3 Anthropology and the Worldly Concept of Philosophy3.4 The Cyclops Metaphor and Kant's anthropologia transscendentalis; 3.5 The Boundaries between Kant's Pure Philosophy and His Pragmatic Anthropology; 3.6 The Boundaries between Pure and Empirical Philosophy; 3.7 The Mind's Activity: Anthropology, 7; 3.8 A Significant Passage from the Rostock Manuscript; 3.9 The Published Remark to 7 of the 1798 Anthropology; 3.10 The Concept of Sensibility: Anthropology, 8-11; 3.11 Sensibility as Strength.
  • 3.12 Kant's Classification of the Faculties in the 1798 Anthropology and in the Rostock Manuscript3.13 Anthropology and Kant's Study of the Faculties of the Human Mind: Some Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4 Kant's System of the Faculties of the Human Mind; 4.1 The Classification of the Mental Faculties in Kant Scholarship; 4.2 Some Brief Considerations Concerning Kant's Division of the Faculties in the First Critique; 4.3 Towards Kant's Tripartite Division of the Faculties in the third Critique.
  • 4.4 The Correspondence between (Pure) Reason and the (Higher) Faculty of Desire, as well as (Pure) Reason and (Autonomous) Will4.5 The Concept of Pleasure and the Role of Feeling in the Critique of Practical Reason; 4.6 Kant's Classification of the Faculties in the Critique of Practical Reason: Some General Remarks; 4.7 The System of the Higher Cognitive Faculties and Its Relation to the Distinction between "Philosophy as a System" and "Critique" in the So Called 'First Introduction' to the Critique of the Power of Judgement.