Interpreting Kant's Critiques

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Interpreting Kant's Critiques

Karl Ameriks

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 2003

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ISBN 9780199247318

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Karl Ameriks here collects his most important essays to provide a detailed and up-to-date analysis of Kant's main arguments in all three major areas of his work: theoretical philosophy ("Critique of Pure Reason"), practical philosophy ("Critique of Practical Reason"), and aesthetics ("Critique of Judgment"). Guiding the volume is Ameriks's belief that one cannot properly understand any one of these Critiques except in the context of the other two. The essays can be read individually, but read together they offer a comprehensive guide to the main themes of the most influential of all modern philosophical systems.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: The Common Ground of Kant's Critiques
  • PART I: THE FIRST CRITIQUE AND KANT'S THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • 1. Kant's Transcendental Deduction as Regressive Argument
  • 2. Recent Work on Kant's Theoretical Philosophy
  • 3. Kantian Idealism Today
  • 4. The Critique of Metaphysics: Kant and Traditional Ontology
  • 5. Kant and Short Arguments to Humility
  • PART II: THE SECOND CRITIQUE AND KANT'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • 6. Kant's Deduction of Freedom and Morality
  • 7. Kant on the Good Will
  • 8. Kant and Hegel on Freedom: Two New Interpretations
  • 9. Kant's Groundwork III Argument Reconsidered
  • 10. 'Pure Reason of Itself Alone Suffices to Determine the Will'
  • 11. On the Two Non-Realist Intepretations of Kant's Ethics
  • PART III: THE THIRD CRITIQUE AND KANT'S AESTHETICS
  • 12. How to Save Kant's Deduction of Taste as Objective
  • 13. New Views on Kant's Judgment of Taste
  • 14. Taste, Conceptuality, and Objectivity
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: pbk ISBN 9780199247325

Description

Karl Ameriks here collects his most important essays to provide a uniquely detailed and up-to-date analysis of Kant's main arguments in all three major areas of his work: theoretical philosophy (Critique of Pure Reason), practical philosophy (Critique of Practical Reason), and aesthetics (Critique of Judgment). A substantial, specially written introduction sets out common themes in the structure and interpretation of Kant's Critical philosophy. The first part of the book includes several of the author's well-known essays on the Critique of Pure Reason , emphasizing Kant's central theoretical notions of a transcendental deduction and transcendental idealism, and providing an extensive review of recent English and German scholarship in this area. Part II includes new discussions of the Critique of Practical Reason and its relation to Kant's other main work in moral theory, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Part III focuses on taste and the Critique of Judgment, and on the controversial hypothesis that even in this area Kant's position is fundamentally objective and conceptual. This collection has two distinctive characteristics. First, it demonstrates in detail how, for understanding the basic structure of any one of Kant's Critiques, it is extremely important and helpful to keep in mind its logical and historical relation to Kant's other Critiques - and hence to track the parallels and differences between theoretical, practical, and aesthetic forms of judgment and reason. Secondly, the book makes interpretation itself a central issue. That is, not only does it offer a series of interrelated interpretations of Kant's main works, along with a detailed comparison and assessment of other interpretations, but it also argues that the difficulty of interpretation is itself a central feature of the Critical philosophy, and that the difficulties of that philosophy have become paradigmatic for modern philosophy in general. Interpreting Kant's Critiques complements and extends the arguments of the author's earlier books, Kant's Theory of Mind and Kant and the Fate of Autonomy. It will find a wide readership not just amongst Kant specialists but among the many philosophers following in his footsteps.

Table of Contents

  • PART I: THE FIRST CRITIQUE AND KANT'S THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • PART II: THE SECOND CRITIQUE AND KANT'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • PART III: THE THIRD CRITIQUE AND KANT'S AESTHETICS

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