Title: Kant on the human standpoint /
Authors: Longuenesse, Béatrice, 1950-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel,; Judgment
Abstract: "In this collection of essays Beatrice Longuenesse considers the three main aspects of Kant's philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics of nature, his moral philosophy, and his aesthetic theory, under one unifying principle: Kant's conception of our capacity to form judgments."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction; Part I. Discussions: 1. Kant's categories and capacity to judge; 2. Synthetics, logical forms, and the objects of our ordinary experience; 3. Synthetics and givenness; Part II. The Human Standpoint in Kant's Transcendental Analytic: 4. Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the categories; 5. Kant's deconstruction of the principle of sufficient reason; 6. Kant on causality: what was he trying to prove?; 7. Kant's standpoint on the whole: disjunctive judgment, community, and the Third Analogy of Experience; Part III. The Human Standpoint in the Critical System: 8. The transcendental ideal, and the unity of the critical system; 9. Moral judgment as a judgment of reason; 10. Kant's leading thread in the analytic of the beautiful.