The Philosophy of Kant Explained (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Watson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330239687 ISBN 13 : 9781330239681

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the questions that shape how we experience beauty and taste.

This clear guide delves into Kant’s ideas about how we judge things as beautiful or sublime, and why such judgments feel universal even when they come from personal feeling. It explains how taste relates to our minds, not just to objects, and shows how aesthetic judgments fit into a broader theory of knowledge and experience.

This edition makes complex philosophy approachable without watering down the core arguments. You’ll see how Kant connects aesthetic taste to the mind’s structure, and why judgments of beauty can claim a kind of universal validity without appealing to objective concepts. The text also traces the tension between feeling and reason, and how this plays out in the famous debates about freedom, necessity, and nature.

• Understand the distinction between judgments of taste and judgments of knowledge
• Learn how the sublime and the beautiful are defined and evaluated
• See how Kant connects aesthetics to broader questions in transcendental philosophy
• Follow the method of deduction and the idea of subjective universality in aesthetic judgment

Ideal for readers curious about how our sense of beauty connects to reason, perception, and the structure of thought. This book is a solid introduction for students and general readers alike who want a grounded, readable entry into Kant’s theory of judgment and taste.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Kant Explained

This book is the result of a not unsuccessful experiment in the art of teaching continued over many years, the main object of which was to provide a method by which the tendency of the student to lean upon the authority of his teacher should be counteracted. Nothing can well be more fatal to any real progress in philosophy than the habit of listening to lectures without a corresponding reaction of one's own mind. Various plans have been suggested for the avoidance of this fatal defect. The plan that I was led to adopt with more advanced students a good many years ago was to introduce them to the direct study of the Critical Philosophy through the medium of the translated passages, published under the title of "The Philosophy of Kant in Extracts from his own Writings," which I had made expressly for that purpose. In this way I was able to count upon the co-operation of the class, while the method seemed to me to have the additional advantage of recognising that the mind can only be aroused to powerful reaction when the matter upon which it is exercised is of the first rank. The main disadvantage in this method of slow and elaborate study is the amount of time it consumes, and I have therefore thought it advisable to publish the oral I have therefore thought it advisable to publish the oral explanations that I have been led to give on the successive paragraphs of my translations from Kant.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1908. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330239687
• ISBN 13: 9781330239681
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 530
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