KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2024
Thomas Wyrwich
{"title":"Statuiert Kants theoretische Philosophie eine radikale negative Theologie? Anmerkungen zu einer These aus der jüngeren Forschung im Lichte von Kants regulativem Deismus","authors":"Thomas Wyrwich","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Markus Kohl, Ruben Schneider and (in substance) Marcus Willaschek have recently argued that Kant’s theoretical philosophy includes a <jats:italic>radical</jats:italic> negative theology. This article criticises this radical reading. On the one hand, it argues that different Kantian passages that seem to speak for the absolute incomprehensibility of the highest being can be interpreted as showing that Kant merely rejects comprehensibility according to the pattern of schematised cognition of the understanding (there is no concrete cognition of God). The paper goes on to show that Kant advocates a form of ‘regulative deism’ (although he also associates deism with a form of atheism) and that the analytical conclusions of deistic transcendental theology are no less substantial in principle than those of the Transcendental Aesthetic of the KrV. What Kohl’s, Schneider’s and Willaschek’s interpretations lose sight of is the fact that Kant continuously characterises the highest being conceived by reason in the KrV as a “faultless ideal.”","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2022
Martin Walter
{"title":"Zwei Nachweise der beiden Ausdrücke „Feuerschätze“ und „Phönix der Natur“ in Kants Allgemeiner Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels","authors":"Martin Walter","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2022","url":null,"abstract":"Kant uses two metaphors in his early works on cosmogony: “Fire Treasures” and his famous figure of a “Phoenix of Nature”. This study suggests two sources Kant may have known. The first metaphor, goes back to the German translation of Leibniz’s <jats:italic>Protogaea</jats:italic> (1749) or a review of the <jats:italic>Protogaea</jats:italic> by Gottsched. Both appeared in the same year as the Latin text. Kant receipts the second metaphor most likely from the English poet Abraham Cowley (his poem: “The Extasie”). Both metaphors are significant because they explain and illustrate Kant’s recourse to the Stoic doctrine of <jats:italic>ekpyrosis</jats:italic>, i. e. the passing away through a world-fire and the renewal of the cosmos from the elementary particles created in this holocaustic process.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2025
Levi Haeck
{"title":"The Derivation of the Categories of Quantity","authors":"Levi Haeck","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2025","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I propose to resolve the controversy over the derivation of the categories of quantity by spelling out three claims: (1) the three quantitative functions/forms of judgment (universal-particular-singular), <jats:italic>qua</jats:italic> synthetic categories of quantity (unity-plurality-totality), lawfully direct the determination of sensible manifolds as <jats:italic>singular totalities</jats:italic>, which (2) brings to light a specifically categorial type of judgmental activity, distinguishable from but presupposed by empirical judgments. This calls for (3) pairing the category of totality with the singular judgment and the category of unity with the universal judgment (‘Order B’), rather than pairing the singular judgment with unity and the universal judgment with totality (‘Order A’). At stake in this controversy is our understanding of the categories’ normativity, their scope, and the division of labor between intuitions and categories in individuating objects.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2026
Elke Elisabeth Schmidt
{"title":"Proaktives, reaktives und reziprokes Wohlwollen. Kants System der Liebespflichten","authors":"Elke Elisabeth Schmidt","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2026","url":null,"abstract":"Kant’s duties of love include the duties of beneficence, gratitude, and sympathetic participation. But what is it that allows Kant to bring such seemingly quite heterogeneous duties under one concept, especially under the concept of love? I will argue that it is benevolence as an essential element of love that takes on this unifying role. In order to understand this role of benevolence as the unifying element of the three duties of love, the concept of benevolence will first be analyzed (part 1). Against this background, all three duties of love are then reassessed. Beneficence will be shown to be a proactive form of benevolence (part 2), gratitude to be a reactive form of benevolence (part 3), and sympathetic participation is understood as a form of reciprocal benevolence (part 4).","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142223421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2023
Sebastian Abel
{"title":"Geistersehen innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft: Kant über die Aufklärung dunkler Vorstellungen","authors":"Sebastian Abel","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2023","url":null,"abstract":"The article generally aims to demonstrate that Kant’s endeavor with Swedenborg must be considered <jats:italic>productive</jats:italic>, meaning that “Dreams of a Spirit-Seer” is not merely a slanderous text. Specifically, we will deal with the explanation of “obscure representations”, which, according to Swedenborg, have their basis in the coexistence of the <jats:italic>mundus spiritualis</jats:italic> (not <jats:italic>intelligibilis</jats:italic>!) and <jats:italic>mundus sensibilis</jats:italic>. This theorem proves highly compatible with Kant, leading to an attempt to reconstruct Swedenborg’s considerations ‘within the bounds of bare reason’: Kant’s profane explanation of obscure representations ultimately refers back to semiotics, namely in the sense that the representations are understood as caused by pure rational beings. Obscure representations thus point as signs to a pre-critical ‘realm of ends’. The influence of pure rational beings also manifests itself in a moral-practical sense; it evokes a feeling opposed to egoism, which can easily be traced to the ‘feeling of respect’ or the ‘voice of reason’ from the critical writings. The ‘actual’ spirit-seeing, which Kant explains as a dislocated <jats:italic>foco imaginario</jats:italic> and thus as a <jats:italic>mental defect</jats:italic>, is to be distinguished from all of this, as it only describes the special case of the illegitimate <jats:italic>externalization</jats:italic> of these obscure representations. As will be shown at the end of the article, the theorems taken up in “Dreams of a Spirit-Seer” can be traced further to Kant’s very last writings.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2027
Oliver Sensen
{"title":"The Moral Law as an A Priori Principle. Kleingeld and Willaschek on Autonomy","authors":"Oliver Sensen","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2027","url":null,"abstract":"According to a common reading of Kant, autonomy refers to the idea that pure reason gives the moral law to itself. Pauline Kleingeld and Marcus Willaschek reject this standard view both on textual as well as philosophical grounds. Instead, they argue that autonomy only selects mid-level principles, such as ‘help others,’ and that the moral law is a priori and not given. – In this paper, I first analyze on textual grounds what Kant means when he says that a principle is a priori. I argue that Kant does not conceive of a priori laws as permanently existing entities. Rather they are the product of how reason necessarily functions if it is prompted by sensibility. Kant also uses the word ‘autonomy’ in this context. I then argue that this non-standard view of autonomy as an activity can meet the philosophical objections that Kleingeld and Willaschek raise against autonomy as a giving of the moral law.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2012
Peter Rohs
{"title":"Wieweit lässt sich Kants theoretische Philosophie heute noch verteidigen?","authors":"Peter Rohs","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2012","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I intend to justify six theses: (1) Temporal becoming is founded in an intuition-form of self-intuition, whereas physical space-time is independent of any form of intuition; (2) communicable thoughts are, as Kant says, products of self-consciousness; (3) both roots of idealism are connected by the tensed form of predication; (4) the thinking subject is, as Kant says, an appearance for itself; (5) the subject has, in virtue of this nature, the capacity of mental causality; and (6) mental causality is a sufficient basis for a Kantian “causality from freedom”.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141169853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2019
Paolo Grillenzoni
{"title":"Immanuel Kant und Andrea Bina: Ein Autor, missverstanden und übersehen","authors":"Paolo Grillenzoni","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2019","url":null,"abstract":"In his third essay on earthquakes, Kant refers to “<jats:italic>Pater Bina</jats:italic>’s” electric interpretation of seismic phenomena. Although not a distinguished scholar, and maybe for that reason frequently confused with a certain “Father Isidore Binet”, Bina was nevertheless a noteworthy author. A Cassinese benedictine, Andrea Bina was a philosopher interested in sciences just like Kant; he studied Newton, translated Wolff, invented a seismoscope and was appreciated by his contemporaries at home and beyond the Alps. Kant’s laconic quotation, followed by a value judgement regarding only Bina’s “audacity”, raises some questions, including, <jats:italic>in primis</jats:italic> those about the meaning of his hasty judgment. A plausible well-grounded answer should be looked for in the bio-bibliographical outline of the <jats:italic>neglected</jats:italic> author and in the perusal of his writings. The analysis of Bina’s <jats:italic>Ragionamento sopra le cagioni de’ terremoti</jats:italic> (1751) contributes to our knowledge of the eighteenth-century cultural background and helps us understand the degree of knowledge of the seismic phenomena acquired by men who – amidst many difficulties and hindered by the limits of their science – could only rely on secondhand data often imbued with misconceptions. Comparing Bina’s work – although indirectly – with Kant’s <jats:italic>Fortgesetzte Betrachtung der seit einiger Zeit wahrgenommenen Erderschütterungen</jats:italic> (1756) may help bring to light some convergences, as well as differences, which might be of use in clarifying some peculiarities of the Prussian <jats:italic>Naturforscher</jats:italic>.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141169851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2017
Martin Walter
{"title":"Greift Ludwig Heinrich Jakobs Grundriß der allgemeinen Logik und kritische Anfangsgründe der allgemeinen Metaphysik auf mindestens eine Nachschrift von Kants Logikkolleg zurück? – Eine Ergänzung zur sekundären Überlieferung des Kant’schen Logikkorpus","authors":"Martin Walter","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2017","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a comparison of various sources, such as different editions, correspondence, reviews, and lecture transcripts, it is shown that Ludwig Heinrich Jakob’s <jats:italic>Outline of the General Logic and Critical Elements of Metaphysics in General</jats:italic> uses one or more transcripts of Kant’s Logic Lectures as a source. In addition to the thus far known texts by Kiesewetter and Hippel, Jakob’s textbook should therefore also be added to the list of secondary transmissions of Kant’s Logic Lectures.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141169812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1515/kant-2024-2011
Samuel Kahn
{"title":"Kant’s Position on the Wide Right to Abortion","authors":"Samuel Kahn","doi":"10.1515/kant-2024-2011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2024-2011","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I explicate Kant’s position on the wide right to abortion. That is, I explore the extent to which, according to Kant’s practical philosophy, abortion is punishable, even if it involves an unjust infringement of the right to life. By focusing on the state’s right to punish, rather than the right to life or the onset of personhood, I use Kant to expose a novel range of issues and questions about the legal status of abortion (and criminal punishment more generally). The article is divided into four sections. In the first, I lay the groundwork for Kant’s theory of rights and briefly canvass some of the literature on Kantian approaches to abortion. In the second, I look at Kant’s discussion of equivocal rights. In the third, I turn to Kant’s discussions of capital punishment and suicide. In the fourth, I examine Kant on honor killings, and I use his position on infanticide in order to extrapolate and explain his ideas about the right to punish in the context of abortion.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141169921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}