Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reson

Gardner, Sebastian

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reson - London Routledge 1999 - 377p

includes index and biblioraphy

The problem of metaphysics 1 Historical background: the Enlightenment and its problems 2 Kant`s life 9 Kant`s pre-Critical vacillation: the indispensable dreams of metaphysics 13 Is metaphysics possible? (The Preface) 20 The structure of the Critique 25 The possibility of objects 27 The Critical problem: Kant`s letter to Herz 27 Interpretations of Kant: analytic and idealist 30 The problem of reality 33 Kant`s Copernican revolution 37 How are synthetic a priori judgements possible? (The Introduction) 51 Kant`s logical formulation of the problem of metaphysics 51 Synthetic apriority: objections and replies 58 The sensible conditions of objects (The Aesthetic) 65 Kant`s analysis of cognition 66 The sensible form of experience: space and time 70 Space and time as a priori intuitions: Kant`s arguments 75 Space and time in the Analytic 84 Transcendental idealism 87 The doctrine of transcendental idealism 88 The distinctiveness of transcendental idealism 96 Kant`s ontological denial 99 The argument for transcendental idealism in the Aesthetic 101 Trendelenburg`s alternative 107 The argument for transcendental idealism in the Antinomy 111 The conceptual conditions of objects (The Analytic) 115 The argument of the Analytic: questions of method 115 The relation of thought to objects: the apriority of conceptual form (Idea of a Transcendental Logic) 125 The elements of thought: the categories (The Clue to the Discovery of all Pure Concepts of the Understanding) 131 The preconditions and source of conceptual form: the subject-object relation (The Transcendental Deduction) 135 The specific conceptual form of human experience: causally interacting substances (The Schematism, The Analogies, The Refutation of Idealism) 165 Transcendental arguments, transcendental idealism and Kant`s reply to the skeptic 188 Measurement and modality (The Axioms of Intuition, The Anticipations of Perception, The Postulates of Empirical Thought) 196 Transcendent objects: the concept of noumenon (The Ground of the Distinction of all Objects in general into Phenomena and Noumena) 198 Kant`s critique of Leibniz`s method (The Amphiboly) 206 Unknowable objects (The Dialectic) 209 Beyond the land of truth 209 Transcendental illusion: reason`s ideas of the unconditioned 214 Reason as regulative (The Appendix to the Dialectic) 221 The dialectical inferences of transcendent metaphysics (The Paralogisms, The Antinomy, The Ideal of Pure Reason) 225 Transcendental idealism in the Dialectic I: the dissolution of theoretical reason`s contradictions (The Paralogisms, The Antinomy) 243 Transcendental idealism in the Dialectic II: the problematic intelligible world (The Paralogisms, The Antinomy, The Ideal of Pure Reason) 255 Kant`s destructive achievement 267 The meaning of transcendental idealism 269 Kant`s empirical realism: the nature of appearance 271 The existence of things in themselves 280 Things in themselves and appearances 289 The transcendental ideality of the self 298 Entering into, and remaining within, the Kantian system 303 The complete Critical system (The Canon of Pure Reason) 307 `What ought I to do?` The moral law 308 `What may I hope?` From morality to God 315 The unity and ends of Reason 319

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