The Typic in Kant's ""Critique of Practical Reason"" : Moral Judgment and Symbolic Representation.
"In the Typic chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant aims to enable moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or formal analogue, of moral law. The present monograph is the first comprehensive study of this key text. It provides a detailed co...
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
2016.
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| ISBN: | 9783110455939 3110455935 9783110455151 3110455153 |
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Table of Contents:
- Method of citation and list of abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. The Typic chapter in the Critique of Practical Reason ; 2. Need for the present study ; 2.1 Obscurity of the primary text ; 2.2 Conflicting interpretations in the secondary literature.
- 3. Goals of the present study 4. Approach and methodology ; 4.1 General approach ; 4.2 Specific methodology ; 4.3 On the selection of texts ; 5. Overview ; 5.1 Part One. Commentary ; 5.2 Part Two. The typic's place in Kant's theory of symbolic representation ; Commentary.
- Chapter 1. The task 1.1 Objects of pure practical reason and the concepts of good and evil ; 1.2 Moral appraisal ; Chapter 2. The 'particular difficulties' ; 2.1 Construals of the problem in the secondary literature ; 2.1.1 Natural necessity vs. freedom ; 2.1.2 Is vs. ought.
- 2.1.3 Concrete vs. abstract 2.1.4 Matter vs. form ; 2.1.5 Subjective ends vs. objective ends ; 2.2 The representational mismatch: sensible intuitions vs. supersensible Ideas.
- 2.2.1 From 'the very same difficulties' as theoretical judgment to the 'particular difficulties' of practical judgment 2.2.2 Reason and finitude ; 2.2.3 Sensible intuitions vs. supersensible Ideas ; Chapter 3. The resources ; 3.1 The schematism and the imagination.