Unity of Knowing and Acting in Kant A Paradigmatic Integration of the Theoretical and the Practical
- Bangalore Dharmaram Publications 2002
- 615p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction Critical Philosophy as a Paradigm Shift Philosophising as a Response A Paradigm Shift in Kant`s Critiques Recapturing Unity: The Present Project A `World`-Generating Epistemology: Transcendental Idealism The Foundations of a Transcendental `World` 23 A Copernican Turn and The Rejection of Metaphysical `World` 32 Sources of Knowledge: Knowing the `World` 43 Sensible Intuition 44 Understanding 46 Imagination 50 Reason 53 From Experience to "Possible Experience" 62 Concepts and Categories: `World`-Generating Tools 65 Space and Time 66 Categories and Their Deduction 73 The Transcendental Object 87 The Transcendental Unity of Apperception 93 Transcendental Synthesis 99 Ideas of Reason: The Dialectic of the `World` 106 A `Unity `-Seeking Judgment: Critical Aesthetics and Teleology Aspiring for `Unity`: Theoretical and Practical Critiques 391 Irreconcilable Realms? 392 The Quest for Unity in the First Critique 398 The Primacy of the Practical 402 The Third Critique as a Unity-Seeking Endeavour 408 Reflective Judgment: The Uniting Tool 416 Aesthetic Judgment: `Unity` through Art and Nature 425 The Judgment of Taste 426 The Beautiful and the Sublime: Two Approaches 430 The Harmony of the Faculties 447 Intersubjectivity: Universalising Unity 456 Purposiveness without Purpose and Sensus Communis: The Locus of Unity 464 The Teleological Judgment: `Unity` in Purposiveness 480 Teleological Judgment and the Principle of Purposiveness 482 Mechanism in Need of Teleology 495 Organism: A Paradigmatic Unity 506 The Supersensible Substrate: The Ultimate Ground of Unity 518 Towards Uniting the Critical System 532 Community and the Fate of Critical Unity General Observations 543 Community as the Focal Point of Philosophising 550 The Fate of Kant` s Quest for Unity: An Open Project 561 A Select Bibliography 577 Primary Sources 577 Secondary Sources 582