On The Ideal of Pure Reason
Kant’s chapter, “On the Ideal of Pure Reason,” best known for his critique of the ontological argument, has a greater, more expansive importance for the...
Kant’s chapter, “On the Ideal of Pure Reason,” best known for his critique of the ontological argument, has a greater, more expansive importance for the...
Concepts of Pure Reason, Platonic Ideas, the Is/Ought Distinction, & Kantian Ideas as Transcendental The sections that lead up to the paralogisms of pure reason...
Contents: The Centrality of A Priori Reasoning Many outstanding introductory books have been written on Kant and, in many cases, the notion of an a...
How do Pragmatists view Kant? Rorty’s answer may be drawn from several of his essays: for Rorty, as for Dewey and other pragmatist philosophers, Kant...
From Kant’s Concluding Thoughts on the Transcendental Aesthetic up to the analytic of Concepts Contents The Myth of the Given The notion of a perceptual...
In theTranscendental Aesthetic Kant develops a thesis that might be stated as follows: Despite its foundational importance, this thesis might appear unilluminating, given that Descartes,...
Kant’s saying that “though all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it all arises out of experience,” which appears in the...
A reader encountering the second half of the Antinomies is likely to feel a certain sense of culmination, perhaps even that Kant’s response to the...
Contents: General Introduction to the Antinomies The conflict between rationalism and empiricism that preceded the Critique is responsible for much of the dynamism that appears...
Contents: Introduction Kant’s fourth Paralogism takes as its theme the justification of transcendental idealism against other approaches to what has been called “the problem of...
Having critiqued the rationalist argument for the simplicity of the soul, Kant now turns his attention to the rationalist notion of “personality” as an additional...
In the second paralogism, Kant continues to develop his critique of rationalist (Cartesian) psychology. He now turns his attention from its substantiality to its simplicity....