Kant''s Ideas of Reason

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Ideas of theoretical reason; 2. The two functions of reason in human cognition; 3. Kant's visual metaphors: Standpoint, Horizon, and Focus Imaginarius; 4. The perspectivalist interpretation: the horizon of human experience; 5. The perspectivalist interpretation: ultimate reality as Focus Imaginarius; Conclusion; References.

Summary

This Element introduces Kant's ideas of reason, focusing on the ideas of theoretical reason in the study of nature. It offers a novel interpretation that shows how such ideas as the soul, the world-whole, and God provide a regulative orientation for coping with human perspectival situatedness in the world.

Product details

• Authors: Katharina T. Kraus, Katharina T. (Johns Hopkins University) Kraus
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009507325
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950732-5
• No. of pages: 84
• Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge