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Offers a new interpretation of Kant's theory of judgment that clarifies his suggestion that a genuine philosophy is guided by a world concept. Rudolf 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.

Table of Contents
  • 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

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        Publisher: Northwestern University Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780810144309, 978-0810144309
        ISBN10: 0810144301
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        Western philosophy from c 1800

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Offers a new interpretation of Kant's theory of judgment that clarifies his suggestion that a genuine philosophy is guided by a world concept. Rudolf 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.

        Table of Contents
        • 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

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