Kant and the Unity of Reason: History of Philosophy

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Contents Preface xi Note on the Text and Translation, Abbreviations xv Part I. Kant’s Way to the Critique of Judgment Chapter 1 Kant’s Philosophical Biography 3 1. The Origins of Kant’s Philosophy, 1746–1765 3 2. Toward the Critique of Reason, 1766–1781 8 3. The Critique of Pure Reason: Early Polemics and Developments, 1781–1790 11 4. Philosophy of History and the Project of a Critical Ethics, 1784–1788 14 5. The Critique of Judgment: Aesthetics, Teleology, and Religion, 1788–1794 16 6. Right, Politics, and Anthropology, 1793–1798 18 7. Opus Postumum, Lecture Courses, and Reflexionen 20 Chapter 2 The Critique of Pure Reason: Sensibility, Understanding, and Reason 23 1. The Problem of Knowledge: The A Priori of Knowledge and the Copernican Revolution 23 2. The Theory of Sensibility: Intuition and Sensation 28 3. The Understanding: Judgment and Concepts 35 4. Reason: Ideas and System 38 Chapter 3 The Critique of Practical Reason: Pure Reason—Speculative and Practical Reason 45 1. Critique of Pure Practical Reason and Critique of Practical Reason 45 2. Pure Reason Is Practical 47 3. Pure Practical Reason and the Influence of Sensibility 51 4. Speculative Reason and Pure Practical Reason: Their Unity and Their Different Employment 57 Chapter 4 The Critique of Judgment: A Preliminary Investigation 61 1. “Tout est dit” and the Critique of Judgment 61 2. The Genesis of the Critique of Judgment: Problematic and Text 65 2.1. The Problematic 66 2.2. The Text 73 3. Taste, Feeling, and Sensibility before Aesthetic Judgment 74 Part II. The Introduction to the Critique of Judgment Chapter 5 The Text 85 1. “First Introduction,” Introduction, and Preface: The History 85 2. The Problem of the Introduction as the Problem of the Third Critique 87 3. The Structure of the Introduction 94 Chapter 6 Introduction §§I–III: The Idea of Philosophy and the Critique of Judgment 100 Text §§I–III 100 Commentary 114 1. Synopsis: §I, On the Partition of Philosophy 114 1.1. §I Commentary: Theoretical, Technical-Practical, and Moral-Practical Spheres of Philosophy 115 2. Synopsis: §II, On the Domain of Philosophy in General 125 2.1. §II Commentary: A Geography of the Cognitive Faculty 126 3. Synopsis: §III, On the Critique of Judgment as a Means to Connect the Two Parts of Philosophy into a Whole 136 3.1. §III Commentary: Urtheilskraft and Its Critique 137 Chapter 7 Introduction §§IV–VI: Reflective Faculty of Judgment and Formal Purposiveness of Nature 146 Text §§IV–VI 146 Commentary 162 1. Synopsis: §IV, On the Faculty of Judgment as a Faculty That Legislates A Priori 162 1.1. §IV Commentary: Reflective and Determinant Faculty of Judgment 164 2. Synopsis: §V, The Principle of Formal Purposiveness of Nature Is a Transcendental Principle of the Faculty of Judgment 179 2.1. §V Commentary: Nature in General and Nature in Its Manifold Empirical Forms 180 3. Synopsis: §VI, On the Conjunction of the Feeling of Pleasure with the Concept of Purposiveness of Nature 197 3.1. §VI Commentary: The Aim of Reflection and the Feeling of Pleasure and Displeasure 198 Chapter 8 Introduction §§VII–IX: A Critique of the Faculty of Judgment, Aesthetic and Teleological 206 Text §§VII–IX 206 Commentary 222 1. Synopsis: §VII, On the Aesthetic Representation of the Purposiveness of Nature 222 1.1. §VII Commentary: Another Aesthetic 223 2. Synopsis: §VIII, On the Logical Representation of the Purposiveness of Nature 237 2.1. §VIII Commentary: Aesthetic and Teleological Faculty of Judgment 238 3. Synopsis: §IX, On the Connection Between the Legislations of Understanding and Reason Through the Faculty of Judgment 248 3.1. §IX Commentary: A Constitutive Aesthetic Principle for Experience in General 249 Part III. The World of Experience: Beauty and Life Chapter 9 The Analytic of the Aesthetic Faculty of Judgment (§§1–29): The Beautiful and the Sublime 261 1. The “Partition” of the Critique of Judgment 261 2. The Analytic of the Beautiful: The Task of a Transcendental Critique of Taste 264 3. The Four Moments of the Judgment of Taste (§§1–22) 269 4. The Analytic of the Sublime (§§23–29) 286 Chapter 10 The Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgments (§§30–54): Sensus Communis and Genius, Nature, and Art 293 1. The Formal Deduction: How Are Pure A Priori Judgments of Taste Possible? (§§30–38 Remark) 294 2. Sensus Communis and Genius, Nature, and Art (§§39–54) 299 Chapter 11 The Dialectic of...