KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2042
Babette Babich
{"title":"Kant Between Chemistry and Alchemy: Cinnabar, ‘Now Red, Now Black’","authors":"Babette Babich","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2042","url":null,"abstract":"This essay takes its point of departure from a post-Nietzschean reading of Kant and the limits of logic and critique. The focus is on science, particularly chemistry and alchemy via mercurial cinnabar (HgS), to this day the primary source of elemental mercury. Seeking to raise the question of science as Nietzsche names it along with the question of truth, this essay undertakes to raise the question of historiography in science, using the illustration of alchemy.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138533717","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 : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2043
Wim Dubbink
{"title":"Kant on Lying in Extreme Situations","authors":"Wim Dubbink","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2043","url":null,"abstract":"A crucial issue in normative ethics concerns the morality of lying. Kant defends the view that the duty to not lie does not allow for any exceptions in practical judgments: it <jats:italic>never</jats:italic> is a person’s right or duty to lie. Many people abhor this view. Kantians have tried to make sense of Kant’s view (and save Kantian moral philosophy) by suggesting Kantian interpretations that are less strict. I reject the attempts to nuance the strictness of Kant’s view. I break new ground by arguing that Kant’s view is best made sense of by taking his strict stance seriously. I focus on his doctrine of virtue account against lying. Kant is not <jats:italic>always</jats:italic> strict on the interpretation of duties. As regards other duties he does leave (limited) room for exceptions. The strictness of the duty to not lie therefore is a special case intrinsically connected to key aspects of his fundamental philosophy. My explanation of the doctrine of virtue account starts out by focusing on the inner lie. For Kant each and every inner lie is problematic because <jats:italic>being</jats:italic> <jats:italic>truthful</jats:italic> is a condition and an integral part of the moral<jats:italic> Denkungsart</jats:italic>; i. e., way virtue manifests itself in the empirical world. Hence, an inner lie must be interpreted as the destruction of freedom and personhood. Kant’s doctrine of virtue view on the inner lie also implies a strict view on the <jats:italic>outer</jats:italic> lie. Developing this implication requires the analysis of Kant’s view on human self-knowledge and their propensity to evil.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"147 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138533747","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 : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2047
Michael H. Walschots
{"title":"Karin de Boer: Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 273 p. ISBN 978-1-108-84217-4.","authors":"Michael H. Walschots","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"20 1","pages":"814 - 819"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139249155","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 : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2046
Jörn Spindeldreher
{"title":"Kant and the Possibility of Progress. From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties. Hrsg. von Paul T. Wilford und Samuel A. Stoner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021; 294 Seiten. ISBN 978-0-81-225282-8.","authors":"Jörn Spindeldreher","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"76 1","pages":"819 - 822"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139250233","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 : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2044
Jörg Noller
{"title":"Sabrina Maren Bauer: Der Wahrheitsbegriff in Kants Transzendentalphilosophie. Eine Untersuchung zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. XVI und 257 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-11-069777-3. [KSEH 211]","authors":"Jörg Noller","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"2 ","pages":"831 - 833"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139249089","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 : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2045
Christian Onof
{"title":"Anja Jauernig: The World according to Kant. Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical Idealism. Oxford 2021. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-969538-6.","authors":"Christian Onof","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"536 1","pages":"822 - 827"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246500","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 : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2049
Giulia Cantamessi
{"title":"Stefano Bacin: Kant e l’autonomia della volontà. Una tesi filosofica e il suo contesto. Bologna: il Mulino 2021. 224 pages. ISBN 978-88-15-29295-7.","authors":"Giulia Cantamessi","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"39 1","pages":"827 - 830"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139249006","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}