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Author : Paul Guyer
Release : 1997-05-13
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Kant and the Claims of Taste by : Paul Guyer
Download or read book Kant and the Claims of Taste written by Paul Guyer. This book was released on 1997-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics.
Author : Paul Guyer
Release : 1987-12-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Kant and the Claims of Knowledge by : Paul Guyer
Download or read book Kant and the Claims of Knowledge written by Paul Guyer. This book was released on 1987-12-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radically new account of the development and structure of the central arguments of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance, causation, and independent existence. Paul Guyer makes far more extensive use than any other commentator of historical materials from the years leading up to the publication of the Critique and surrounding its revision, and he shows that the work which has come down to us is the result of some striking and only partially resolved theoretical tensions. Kant had originally intended to demonstrate the validity of the categories by exploiting what he called 'analogies of appearance' between the structure of self-knowledge and our knowledge of objects. The idea of a separate 'transcendental deduction', independent from the analysis of the necessary conditions of empirical judgements, arose only shortly before publication of the Critique in 1781, and distorted much of Kant's original inspiration. Part of what led Kant to present this deduction separately was his invention of a new pattern of argument - very different from the 'transcendental arguments' attributed by recent interpreters to Kant - depending on initial claims to necessary truth.
Author : Henry E. Allison
Release : 2001-03-19
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Kant's Theory of Taste by : Henry E. Allison
Download or read book Kant's Theory of Taste written by Henry E. Allison. This book was released on 2001-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. The first part of the book analyses Kant's conception of reflective judgment and its connections with both empirical knowledge and judgments of taste. The second and third parts treat two questions that Allison insists must be kept distinct: the normativity of pure judgments of taste, and the moral and systematic significance of taste. The fourth part considers two important topics often neglected in the study of Kant's aesthetics: his conceptions of fine art, and the sublime.
Author : Paul Guyer
Release : 2013-12-08
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Knowledge, Reason, and Taste by : Paul Guyer
Download or read book Knowledge, Reason, and Taste written by Paul Guyer. This book was released on 2013-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.
Author : Henry E. Allison
Release : 1990-09-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Kant's Theory of Freedom by : Henry E. Allison
Download or read book Kant's Theory of Freedom written by Henry E. Allison. This book was released on 1990-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers critical literature on the subject.
