Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes

Springer Verlag (2021)
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Abstract

This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant’s philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes. Such variations are, in fact, reconstructions made according to Kantian ideas and principles and yet cannot be extracted as such directly from his writings. The book also analyses Kant's philosophy from a new metaphysical angle, based on the original metaphysics of the author, called panenmentalism. It reconstructs some missing links in Kant's philosophy, such as the idea of teleological time, which is vital for Kant's moral theory. Although these variations cannot be found literally in Kant’s works, they can be legitimately explicated, developed, and implied from them. Such is the case because these variations are strictly compatible with the details of the texts and the texts as wholes, and because they are systematically integrated. Their coherence supports their validation. The target audiences are graduate and PhD students as well as specialist researchers of Kant's philosophy.

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Chapters

Spatial Time: The Unity of Two Kantian Forms of Intuition

The First Critique’s “Transcendental Aesthetic,” discussing the contribution of sensuous cognition to our knowledge, apparently distinguishes and separates the form of the internal sense, time, from the form of external sense, space. Both forms are of our intuition, the reception and order of data, ... see more

Kant’s Philosophy Under Panenmentalist Observations

This Chapter is devoted to the dialogue that panenmentalism, my original metaphysics that is realistic about individual pure possibilities, maintains with Kant’s philosophy in a way of panenmentalist variations on some major Kantian themes.

The Submission of Our Sensuous Nature to the Moral Law in the Second Critique

Why should we submit the moral law, which is entirely incompatible with our inclinations, namely with our emotions, desires, and instincts such as self-love? After all these inclinations affect us quite strongly, for long period of time, and under various circumstances on a regular daily basis. In a... see more

The Relationship Between the Formal and Transcendental-Metaphysical Logic

Since Kant’s time, there has been an exciting debate concerning the question of which logic is prior to the other—is the formal-general logic prior to the transcendental logic or the other way round? Which logic serves as a model for the other? Some years ago, Nathan Rotenstreich argued for the prio... see more

Phenomenal Reality and Relationality as a Conditioned Part of the Thing-in-Itself

The problem what is the relationship or connection between phenomena, which we truly know, and things-in-themselves, which we cannot know at all, as they are not subject to our forms of intuitions and the categories of our understanding, but of which we can only think, as long as our thought does no... see more

The Problem of Immediate Evidence According to Kant and Hegel

Kant, Spinoza, and Hegel, mutatis mutandis, reject the possibility of a self-, immediate evidence. Hence, they also reject foundationalism as a model for the desired philosophical system. Self or immediate evidence is incompatible with Kant’s idea of the human reason as a systematic whole, all of wh... see more

Restless and Impelling Reason and the Impossibility of Philosophical Satisfaction

In the endEnds of the First Critique, Kant predicted that near the endEnds of the eighteenth century the metaphysical desireDesires to construct a final philosophical system will be fully satisfied. Such was not happened to be the case in the intellectual history. Kant’s philosophy is restless as lo... see more

Teleological Time: A Variation on a Kantian Theme

The form of the inner sense, time, to which the Critique of Pure Reason devotes the first chapter, is subject to hard determinism, owing to which each of our choices, decisions, and actions is causally determined. Time is irreversible and the past determines the present, and the present determines t... see more

A Kantian Response to Sellars’s Criticism of the Myth of the Given

One of the greatest followers of Kant, Wilfrid Sellars, who considered himself as an author of variations on Kantian themes, criticizes Kant for his myth of the given. The myth argues, inter alia, that we have a direct awareness of perception data, whereas, Sellars argues we cannot have any such dir... see more

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