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...
I placed the order then half an hour later jubiliation turned to frustration when I got this email: Dear Helen Toone, The following order has been cancelled...
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...
I won't think them as complete. Or better said, in order to appreciate its completness wouldn't be better to ask for the plausibility of a sound trascendental...
Neo Kantians such as Friedman (with a profound knowledge of modern science, and of Kant's own reinterpretations of his own theory in light of advances in...
Omar, Why would the new categories be engendered by science? As opposed to coming out of, say, psychology-- insofar as psychology might bring us to the most...
Science requires, presumably, a mathematical grounding, which is to say, an apriori synthetic grounding, in order to secure the coherence, significance, and...
Omar, For me quotidian experience is not a matter of mystification and folk myths (as you find in China) but of our manipulation of familiar stable macroscopic...
Bruce, Nietzsche and Hegel, vis a vis the Chinese: I have taught them classes on each. They have a cultural awareness of Hegel, vis a vis, Marx, who is...
"That is true Omar. We cannot know what cannot appear. We can know what does appear, and what does appear is (usually, but not always) the thing itself. I say ...
things in themselves never appear for Kant. Â Omar ... From: new_idea_2007 <new_idea_2007@...> To: kant-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 4, 2008...
We have knowledge of rights, where rights are a form of thing-in-itself and never manifest as appearance. This example goes contrary to the statement, "We...
