Kant's Worldview

How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8101-4430-9
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

In Kant’s Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension, Rudolf A. Makkreel offers a new interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s theory of judgment that clarifies Kant’s well-known suggestion that a genuine philosophy is guided by a world-concept (Weltbegriff). Makkreel shows that Kant increasingly expands the role of judgment from its logical and epistemic tasks to its reflective capacity to evaluate objects and contextualize them in worldly terms. And Makkreel shows that this final orientational power of judgment supplements the cognition of the understanding with the comprehension originally assigned to reason.

To comprehend, according to Kant, is to possess sufficient insight into situations so as to also achieve some purpose. This requires that reason be applied with the discernment that reflective judgment makes possible. Comprehension, practical as well as theoretical, can fill in Kant’s world concept and his sublime evocation of a Weltanschauung with a more down-to-earth worldview.

Scholars have recently stressed Kant’s impure ethics, his nonideal politics, and his pragmatism. Makkreel complements these efforts by using Kant’s ethical, sociopolitical, religious, and anthropological writings to provide a more encompassing account of the role of human beings in the world. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of Kant and the history of European philosophy.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I:  Cognizing and Knowing the Natural World                           
- 1. Comprehending the World through Intuitive Assimilation, Conceptual Acquisition, and Rational Appropriation        
- 2. Kant on Baumgarten: The Aesthetic, Analytical, and Synthetic Distinctness of What is Empirically Assimilated 
- 3. Kant and Meier on Cognition, Comprehension and Knowledge
- 4. The Acquisition of Cognition and its Transcendental Sources
- 5. The Role of Judgment in Validating Cognition as Meaningful and Knowledge as True
- 6. The Modal Categories of Empirical Inquiry and the Limits of What Can Actually Be Known: Replacing Prejudices with Preliminary and Provisional Judgments
- Part II: Comprehending the Human World
- 7. Seeking Practical Resolutions for Irresolvable Theoretical Antinomies 
- 8. Law as Legislative and Law as Legitimating:  The Role of Feeling and Judgment in Morality
- 9. Aesthetic Communicability and the Recontextualization of Experience
- 10. The Modal Relevance of Reflective Judgment for Kant’s Worldview
- 11. What Kant Means by Life
- 12. Comprehending Teleological Purposiveness by Contextualizing It
- 13. Kant’s Anthropology and Its Strategies for Moving Beyond the Inner Sense of Psychology: Reexamining All the Senses   
- 14. Vital Sense, Interior Sense, and Self-Assessment
- 15. The Relation between Philosophy According to a World-Concept and Cosmopolitanism
- 16. The Obstacles to Be Overcome in Fulfilling the Goals of a World-Oriented Philosophy
- Conclusion: Kant’s Multifaceted Worldview
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

RUDOLF A. MAKKREEL is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of many books, including Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermeneutical Import of the Critique of Judgment and Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics.