Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation - The Nature of Inner Experience

Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.

List of contents

Introduction: from inner experience to the self-formation of psychological persons; Part I. The Appearing Self: 1. Inner sense as the faculty for inner receptivity; 2. Temporal consciousness and inner perception; Part II. Self-Consciousness and the 'I' of the Understanding: 3. The form of reflexivity and the expression 'I think'; 4. The conditions of self-reference; Part III. The Human Person and the Demands of Reason: 5. The guiding thread of inner experience; 6. The demands of theoretical reason and self-knowledge; 7. The demands of practical reason and self-formation; Epilogue: individuality and wholeness.

About the author

Katharina T. Kraus is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She has published numerous articles on Kant's theoretical philosophy in journals such as Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, European Journal of Philosophy and Noûs.

Summary

This book explores the intricate relationship between becoming an individual person and knowing oneself as such by studying Kant's distinctive account of psychological personhood. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of mind and psychology.

Additional text

'Katharina Kraus' important book offers a careful discussion of Kant's account of the self and self-awareness that is both hermeneutically and philosophically rewarding. On her highly original reading of Kant, our self or person is not something we find, but something we must achieve. Kraus develops this deep and difficult idea with impressive ingenuity and sophistication.' Marcus Willaschek, Goethe-University Frankfurt

Product details

• Authors: Kraus Katharina Kraus, Katharina Kraus, Katharina T Kraus, Katharina T. Kraus, Katharina T. (University of Notre Dame Kraus
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108836647
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83664-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy: Enlightenment