Fugate The Teleology of Reason

A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-030648-4
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This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant’s critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of its fundamental arguments and provide a key to understanding its unity. It thus aims, through an examination of each of Kant’s major writings, to provide a detailed interpretation of his claim that philosophy in the true sense must consist of a The author argues that Kant’s critical philosophy forged a new link between traditional teleological concepts and the basic structure of rationality, one that would later inform the dynamic conception of reason at the heart of German Idealism. The process by which this was accomplished began with Kant’s development of a uniquely teleological conception of systematic unity already in the precritical period. The individual chapters of this work attempt to show how Kant adapted and refined this conception of systematic unity so that it came to form the structural basis for the critical philosophy.

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Fugate, Courtney D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Deutscher Idealismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1; Abbreviations and the Use of Translations;15
2;Part I: Preliminary Investigations;17
2.1;Chapter 1. Motivations;19
2.1.1;Introduction;19
2.1.1.1;§. 1. Preliminary Sketch of the Telic Structure of Kant
’s System of Philosophy;20
2.1.1.1.1;
§. 1.1. The Teleology of Theoretical Reason;21
2.1.1.1.2;§. 1.2. The Teleology of Pure Practical Reason;25
2.1.1.1.3;
§. 1.3. The Doctrine of Wisdom as the End of the System of Philosophy;29
2.1.1.1.4;§. 1.4. Teleology and the

Transcendental Possibility of the Kantian System of Philosophy;31
2.1.1.1.5;§. 1.5. The Unity of Reason;36
2.1.1.2;§. 2. The Teleological Tradition Before an d After Kant;40
2.1.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Teleology in the Philosophies of Kant’s German Predecessors;46
2.1.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Legacy of Kant’s Teleology of Reason in Fichte;49
2.1.1.3;§. 3. Current Views on the Role of Teleology in Kant’s Cr itical Philosophy;58
2.1.1.3.1;§. 3.1. Reactions to the PopularView;63
2.1.1.3.2;§. 3.2. Teleology in special studies of Kant’s philosophy;67
2.1.2;Conclusion;72
2.2;Chapter 2. Teleology: Rudiments of a Theory;73
2.2.1;Introduction;73
2.2.2;Teleology: Not Reducible to a Pattern of Behavior;76
2.2.3;Two Examples of this Tendency in Studies of the History of Philosohpy: Bennett and Couturat;80
2.2.3.1;
§. 1. Teleological Inferences: From Pattern to Purpose;84
2.2.3.1.1;§. 1.1. Teleological and Non-Teleological Inferences;88
2.2.3.1.2;§. 1.2. Traditional Teleological Arguments for God’s Existence;91
2.2.3.1.3;§. 1.3. Concluding Reflections;96
2.2.3.2;
§. 2. Teleological Explanations: From Purpose to Pattern;97
2.2.3.2.1;§. 2.1. Maupertuis and the Universal Teleology of Nature;104
2.2.3.2.2;§. 2.2. Purposes as Laws of Behavior;111
2.2.3.2.3;§. 2.3. Skepticism Regarding Explanation;113
2.2.3.2.4;§. 2.4. Teleological Explanations: Concluding Reflections;115
2.2.3.3;§. 3. The Essential and Inessential Characteristics of Teleological Entities;119
3;Part II: The Teleology of Human Knowledge;125
3.1;Introduction to Part II;127
3.2;Chapter 3. The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Exp
erience;129
3.2.1;Introduction;129
3.2.1.1;§. 1. Wolff’s Ontological Logic and the “acumen pervidendi universalia in singularibus”;133
3.2.1.1.1;§. 1.1. Wolff’s Logic of Experience;135
3.2.1.1.2;§. 1.2. The Wolffian Roots of Kant’s Categories;139
3.2.1.1.3;§. 1.3. The Skill of Perceiving the Universal in the Particular;142
3.2.1.1.4;§. 1.4. Wolff and Kant on the Possibility of Experience;143
3.2.1.2;§. 2. Adolph Friedrich Hoffmann and Christian August Crusius;146
3.2.1.2.1;§. 2.1. The Logic of Experience According to Hoffmann and Crusius;153
3.2.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Possibility of Experience and the Limits of Human Knowledge;157
3.2.1.3;§. 3. Anticipating Kant’s Account of Experience;159
3.2.2;Conclusion: The Nature of Kant’s Advance;163
3.3;Chapter 4. Teleology in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic;164
3.3.1;Introduction;164
3.3.1.1;§. 1. The Problem of the “Critique”: How are Synthetic Judgments a priori Possible?;165
3.3.1.1.1;§. 1.1. The Need for Synthetic Judgments a priori and the Structure of Knowledge;168
3.3.1.1.2;§. 1.2. Preliminary Outline of the Argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic;177
3.3.1.2;§. 2. Space and Time as Grounds of the Formal Perfection of Sensible Objects;183
3.3.1.2.1;§. 2.1. The Objective Formal Perfection of Space;187
3.3.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Transcendental Aesthetic: Comments on the Text;191
3.3.1.3;§. 3. The Transcendental Analytic;193
3.3.1.3.1;§. 3.1. The Metaphysical Deduction;194
3.3.1.3.2;§. 3.2. The Transcendental Deduction;197
3.3.1.3.3;§. 3.3. The Deduction in the B-edition;201
3.3.1.4;§. 4. Summary;212
3.4;Chapter 5. Teleology in the Transcendental Dialectic;217
3.4.1;Introduction;217
3.4.1.1;§. 1. The Relation of the Analytic to the Dialectic;221
3.4.1.2;§. 2. The Ideas of Pure Reason;228
3.4.1.3;§. 3. The Regulative Principles of Pure Reason;240
3.4.1.4;§. 4. The Transcendental Death of Physico-Theology;251
3.4.2;Conclusion;254
3.4.3;General Conclusion to Part II;255
4;Part III: The Teleology of Freedom;257
4.1;Introduction to Part III;259
4.2;Chapter 6. The Teleology of Freedom: The Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the Analytic;264
4.2.1;Introduction;264
4.2.1.1;§. 1. Three Types of Freedom;270
4.2.1.2;§. 2. Our Three Wills;277
4.2.1.3;§. 3. Moral Self-Consciousness;292
4.2.1.4;§. 4. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the GMS;294
4.2.1.5;§. 5. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the KpV;301
4.2.2;Conclusion;306
4.3;Chapter 7. Kant on Rational Faith as an Expression of Autonomy;308
4.3.1;Introduction;308
4.3.1.1;§. 1. Problems and Previous Interpretations;311
4.3.1.1.1;§. 1.1. Beck’s Interpretation;312
4.3.1.1.2;§. 1.2. Wood’s Interpretation
;316
4.3.1.1.2.1;§. 1.2.1. A First Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation;317
4.3.1.1.2.2;§. 1.2.2. A Second Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation;318
4.3.1.1.2.3;§. 1.2.3. A Third Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation;320
4.3.1.1.2.4;§. 1.2.4. A Fourth Difficulty with Woods Interpretation;321
4.3.1.2;§. 2. Kant’s Argument;326
4.3.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Virtue as Moral Strength of Character;327
4.3.1.2.2;§. 2.2. How Rational Belief in God’s Existence Increases the Moral Incentive;331
4.3.1.2.3;§. 2.3. Textual Analysis;335
4.3.1.2.3.1;§. 2.3.1. The Highest Good in KpV;335
4.3.1.2.3.2;§. 2.3.2. The Highest Good in the KrV;343
4.3.1.2.3.3;§. 2.3.3. The Highest Good in the KU;344
4.3.1.2.3.4;§. 2.3.4. The Highest Good in TP;345
4.3.2;Summary of the Argument of this Section;346
4.3.2.1;§. 3. Practical-Dogmatic Metaphysics;347
4.3.3;Conclusion;351
4.4;Excursus: The Life of Reason;353
4.4.1;Introduction;353
4.4.1.1;§. 1. From Morality to Life: Three Conditions of the Possibility of the Realization of a Moral World;355
4.4.1.2;§. 2. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life;361
4.4.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Kant’s Constitutive Concept of Life;363
4.4.1.2.2;§. 2.2. The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Life;364
4.4.1.2.3;§. 2.3. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life: How the Constitutive Concept of Life is Generalized to Include the Feeling of Beauty;369
4.4.2;Conclusion;373
4.5;Chapter 8. The Teleological Unity of Reason and Kant’s Idea of Philosophy;376
4.5.1;Introduction;376
4.5.1.1;§. 1. The Unity of Reason;378
4.5.1.1.1;§. 1.1. The Unity of Reason: First Reconstruction;382
4.5.1.1.2;§. 1.2. Regulative and Constitutive Principles;390
4.5.1.1.3;§. 1.3. The Unity of Reason: Second Reconstruction;396
4.5.1.2;§. 2. Kant’s Concept of Philosophy;403
4.5.1.2.1;§. 2.1. Philosophy “in sensu scholastico” and “in sensu cosmico”;406
4.5.1.2.2;§. 2.2. Unity of Reason and the History of Philosophy;409
4.5.2;Conclusion;412
4.5.3;Brief Outline of Kant’s Conception of Teleology;414
5;Bibliography;420
5.1;I. Translations Consulted;420
5.2;II. Primary Sources;420
5.3;III. Secondary Sources;426
6;Register;441

Über Autor(innen)

Fugate, Courtney D.
Courtney D. Fugate, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.