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The teleology of reason : a study of the structure of Kant's critical philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fugate, Courtney D.
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:Kantstudien. Ergänzungshefte ; 178.
Subjects:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Teleology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Motivations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Preliminary Sketch of the Telic Structure of Kant's System of Philosophy
  • 1.1. The Teleology of Theoretical Reason
  • 1.2. The Teleology of Pure Practical Reason
  • 1.3. The Doctrine of Wisdom as the End of the System of Philosophy
  • 1.4. Teleology and the Transcendental Possibility of the Kantian System of Philosophy
  • 1.5. The Unity of Reason
  • 2. The Teleological Tradition Before and After Kant
  • 2.1. Teleology in the Philosophies of Kant's German Predecessors
  • 2.2. The Legacy of Kant's Teleology of Reason in Fichte
  • 3. Current Views on the Role of Teleology in Kant's Critical Philosophy
  • 3.1. Reactions to the Popular View
  • 3.2. Teleology in special studies of Kant's philosophy
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 2 Teleology: Rudiments of a Theory
  • Introduction.
  • Teleology: Not Reducible to a Pattern of Behavior
  • Two Examples of this Tendency in Studies of the History of Philosophy: Bennett and Couturat
  • 1. Teleological Inferences: From Pattern to Purpose
  • 1.1. Teleological and Non-Teleological Inferences
  • 1.2. Traditional Teleological Arguments for God's Existence
  • 1.3. Concluding Reflections
  • 2. Teleological Explanations: From Purpose to Pattern
  • 2.1. Maupertuis and the Universal Teleology of Nature
  • 2.2. Purposes as Laws of Behavior
  • 2.3. Skepticism Regarding Explanation
  • 2.4. Teleological Explanations: Concluding Reflections
  • 3. The Essential and Inessential Characteristics of Teleological Entities
  • Introduction to Part II
  • ch. 3 The Historical Roots of Kant's'Concept of Experience
  • Introduction
  • 1. Wolff 's Ontological Logic and the "acumen pervidendi universalia in singularibus"
  • 1.1. Wolff's Logic of Experience.
  • 1.2. The Wolffian Roots of Kant's Categories
  • 1.3. The Skill of Perceiving the Universal in the Particular
  • 1.4. Wolff and Kant on the Possibility of Experience
  • 2. Adolph Friedrich Hoffmann and Christian August Crusius
  • 2.1. The Logic of Experience According to Hoffmann and Crusius
  • 2.2. The Possibility of Experience and the Limits of Human Knowledge
  • 3. Anticipating Kant's Account of Experience
  • Conclusion: The Nature of Kant's Advance
  • ch. 4 Teleology in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Problem of the "Critique": How are Synthetic Judgments a priori Possible?
  • 1.1. The Need for Synthetic Judgments a priori and the Structure of Knowledge
  • 1.2. Preliminary Outline of the Argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic
  • 2. Space and Time as Grounds of the Formal Perfection of Sensible Objects
  • 2.1. The Objective Formal Perfection of Space.
  • 2.2. The Transcendental Aesthetic: Comments on the Text
  • 3. The Transcendental Analytic
  • 3.1. The Metaphysical Deduction
  • 3.2. The Transcendental Deduction
  • 3.3. The Deduction in the B-edition
  • 4. Summary
  • ch. 5 Teleology in the Transcendental Dialectic
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Relation of the Analytic to the Dialectic
  • 2. The Ideas of Pure Reason
  • 3. The Regulative Principles of Pure Reason
  • 4. The Transcendental Death of Physico-Theology
  • Conclusion
  • General Conclusion to Part II
  • Introduction to Part III
  • ch. 6 The Teleology of Freedom: The Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the Analytic
  • Introduction
  • 1. Three Types of Freedom
  • 2. Our Three Wills
  • 3. Moral Self-Consciousness
  • 4. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the GMS
  • 5. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the KpV
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 7 Kant on Rational Faith as an Expression of Autonomy
  • Introduction.
  • 1. Problems and Previous Interpretations
  • 1.1. Beck's Interpretation
  • 1.2. Wood's Interpretation
  • 1.2.1. A First Difficulty with Wood's Interpretation
  • 1.2.2. A Second Difficulty with Wood's Interpretation
  • 1.2.3. A Third Difficulty with Wood's Interpretation
  • 1.2.4. A Fourth Difficulty with Woods Interpretation
  • 2. Kant's Argument
  • 2.1. Virtue as Moral Strength of Character
  • 2.2. How Rational Belief in God's Existence Increases the Moral Incentive
  • 2.3. Textual Analysis
  • 2.3.1. The Highest Good in KpV
  • 2.3.2. The Highest Good in the KrV
  • 2.3.3. The Highest Good in the KU
  • 2.3.4. The Highest Good in TP
  • Summary of the Argument of this Section
  • 3. Practical-Dogmatic Metaphysics
  • Conclusion
  • Excursus: The Life of Reason
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Morality to Life: Three Conditions of the Possibility of the Realization of a Moral World
  • 2. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life
  • 2.1. Kant's Constitutive Concept of Life.
  • 2.2. The Historical Roots of Kant's Concept of Life
  • 2.3. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life: How the Constitutive Concept of Life is Generalized to Include the Feeling of Beauty
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 8 The Teleological Unity of Reason and Kant's Idea of Philosophy
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Unity of Reason
  • 1.1. The Unity of Reason: First Reconstruction
  • 1.2. Regulative and Constitutive Principles
  • 1.3. The Unity of Reason: Second Reconstruction
  • 2. Kant's Concept of Philosophy
  • 2.1. Philosophy "in sensu scholastico" and "in sensu cosmico"
  • 2.2. Unity of Reason and the History of Philosophy
  • Conclusion
  • Brief Outline of Kant's Conception of Teleology
  • I. Translations Consulted
  • II. Primary Sources
  • III. Secondary Sources.