Kant's Reason

The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in Kant

Prof Karl Schafer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286853-4 (ISBN)

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This volume develops a novel interpretation of Kant's conception of reason and its philosophical significance. Karl Schafer argues that theoretical and practical reason are manifestations of a single capacity for theoretical and practical understanding, illuminating Kant's conception of the role of reason in philosophical inquiry.

Kant's Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant's conception of reason and its philosophical significance. Karl Schafer argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or "comprehension"). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and practical rationality, without reducing either to the other. In particular, it enables us to see why the activities of both theoretical and practical reason are governed by a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, while also seeing why reason is essentially autonomous. At the same time, Kant's Reason reads Kant as presenting a compelling picture of the role that reason, as a capacity or power, should play in a systematic approach to foundational philosophical questions. In doing so, it argues for an account of the fundamental norms that apply to rational beings that treats neither substantive reasons or values nor merely structural rationality as fundamental, but instead provides a robust conception of reason as a power or capacity for theoretical and practical understanding. The result is a form of rational constitutivism, which contrasts both with the forms of reasons fundamentalism that are currently fashionable and the forms of agency-first constitutivism that have dominated Kantian metaethics. In this sense, this volume aims to vindicate Kant's insistence that his philosophy represents nothing more or less than reason's implicit self-understanding coming to explicit and systematic self-consciousness.

Karl Schafer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he served as Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Irvine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also been a Lawrence S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values, a Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellow with the ACLS/Mellon Foundation.

Introduction: The Unity of Reason in Kant and Today
Part One: Kant s Rational Constitutivism
1: Transcendental Philosophy and the Self-Consciousness of Reason
2: Cognition, Self-Consciousness, and the Taking Condition
3: Kant's Rational Constitutivism
Part Two: Reason and its Unity
4: Reason: The Capacity for Comprehension
5: Theoretical Reason's Supreme Principle and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
6: Practical Reason's Supreme Principle, the Moral Law, and the Highest Good
7: The Autonomy of Reason and the Capacity for Autonomy
Conclusion: Reason, Reasons, and the Future of the Critical Project
Appendix: Alternative Accounts of Cognition

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 240 mm
Gewicht	592 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-286853-5 / 0192868535
ISBN-13	978-0-19-286853-4 / 9780192868534
Zustand	Neuware