Mal, The deduction displays evidence of the understanding's functions (categories) on the independent sphere of sensibility: inner and outer sense. We can only...
Are receptivity and spontaneity truly distinct concepts in the transcendental context? ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
What is the peculiarity of the critical procedure but that it is able to provide universal and necessary principles because it is able to identify the...
Why is it that I always read about God's Understanding, but never about God's reason, in this context? Is that where the divine will comes into play? ... ===...
Kant himself speaks ambivalently here. Thus reason is also referred to as the pure understanding. This suggests: understanding minus sensibility. Certainly in...
Unlike God, humans receive the world. This accounts for its contingency. God's capacities are all creative: both his understanding and intuition create; hence...
The Understanding, via laws of nature, rules the realm of phenomena; Reason, via laws of morality, reigns supreme in the noumenal realm. Morally speaking, our...
You speak only to the determining nature of the faculties, not their reflective nature, which is the other half of the picture. without the reflective one...
Does Kant have anything to say to contemporary art theory? Art may still be aesthetic, but it's hardly beautiful. Can the centrality of beauty to Kant's...
What do you mean by the statement "art may still be aesthetic"? Art is aesthetic; aesthetic is art. Are you saying that art has an intellectual, theoretical...
Adam, The abject as an aesthetic category is the other side of the sublime, which Kant does speak to. If the sublime gives us pleasure in recognizing a...
HI I wondered if someone could point me on the right direction on how to answer this question, Describe Kant's theory of humkan progress, does he think...
Hi Kyle, You should be looking, I believe, at Kant's writings on anthropology from a practical point of view. I think you can find some work from Allen W....
Hi Justin, Thanks for your useful reply to Kyle. When Kant refers to dialectic in the Groundwork, is he making explicit reference to the historical progress of...
HI Bruce, Thanks for the reply. I hope Kyle is still out there and reading because I think my original position is fairly shaky, as you'll see. I don't have...
Justin, According to the index of the CUP translaion, which I should have consulted before submtting this query, the only reference to "dialectic" in the ...
I am involved in an innovative digital research project at the University of Oxford called Electronic Enlightenment (www.e-enlightenment.com). This project...
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Forgive the plug. I'm teaching in a city in China and the owner of a private English school here asked me if I know of anyone interested in teaching English...
... I agree with Omar that there is no contradiction between the noumenal and phenomenal, not just because of the argument about analyticity, but the fact is...
How are the kantian categories of pure reason seen today? Can they still be considered as complete, or even plausible? What are the critics to the table and...
