KANT-STUDIENPub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2038
Michael Kryluk
{"title":"Reflection 6593: Kant’s Rousseau and the Vocation of the Human Being","authors":"Michael Kryluk","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this essay, I examine Kant’s interpretation of Rousseau through the lens of Reflection 6593. This Reflection deserves scrutiny because it serves as a bridge between Kant’s well-known engagement with Rousseau in the mid-1760s and his later discussions of the vocation of the human being in the lectures on ethics and anthropology. Through a close reading of R 6593, I argue that the Reflection offers the earliest evidence of Kant’s philosophy of history and its integration into his treatment of the human vocation. This change, I propose, is instigated by Rousseau’s “Abstract” of St. Pierre’s Perpetual Peace . I conclude that R 6593 is a crucial indicator of Kant’s evolving views on Rousseau and shows his enduring importance for understanding the formation of Kant’s mature political thought.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132681","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2033
Michael Boch
{"title":"Eröffnung der Archivbibliothek für Post-Neukantianismus und kritischen Idealismus der Gegenwart","authors":"Michael Boch","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"114 1","pages":"599 - 600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41908005","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2031
Till Grohmann
{"title":"Die Ambiguität von begrifflichen und gegenständlichen Merkmalen in der theoretischen Philosophie Kants","authors":"Till Grohmann","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper deals with the concept of ‘mark’ (or character, in German Merkmal) in Kant’s theoretical philosophy. It examines the question of what marks are for Kant: Are they marks of things or of our thinking? Are they ontic object marks or conceptual marks? Are marks ontological or logical in nature? We will see that in Kant’s philosophy, as well as in the thought of his rationalist predecessors, the concept of the mark is embedded in a peculiar ambiguity in that it stands for both objective qualities and conceptual representations. – In a first step we will trace the ambiguity of the mark in Kant’s predecessors and contemporaries (especially in Meier, Wolff and Leibniz). In a second step, we will show that Kant retains the aforementioned ambiguity in terms of wording but overcomes it in terms of content.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"114 1","pages":"405 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41539011","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2034
Pirmin Lang
{"title":"Yibin Liang: Bewusstsein und Selbstbewusstsein bei Kant: Eine neue Rekonstruktion. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 297 Seiten, [Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte Band 215.] ISBN 978-3-11-074326-5","authors":"Pirmin Lang","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"114 1","pages":"585 - 589"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43549674","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2037
R. Wahsner
{"title":"Ansgar Seide: Die Notwendigkeit empirischer Naturgesetze bei Kant. [Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie 144.] Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2020. 417 Seiten. ISBN 9783110697131.","authors":"R. Wahsner","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"114 1","pages":"579 - 585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47915629","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2027
L. Spagnesi
{"title":"The Systematic Unity of Reason and Empirical Truth in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason","authors":"L. Spagnesi","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper attempts a reconstruction of reason’s contribution to empirical truth in connection with Kant’s definition of truth as the agreement of cognition with its object. I argue that Kant’s treatment of truth in the Transcendental Analytic is completed in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic with an often neglected but compelling argument (what I shall call the Variety Argument). This argument postulates such a variety among appearances as to undermine any attempt to formulate empirical truths. Crucially, I argue that this variety does not depict an extreme scenario, but rather our own epistemic situation in the absence of reason. Reason completes Kant’s theory of truth by allowing the understanding (i) to form empirical concepts and (ii) to approximate empirical truth.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"114 1","pages":"435 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48238742","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2029
Michael Gregory
{"title":"Kant’s Hylomorphic Formulation of Right and the Necessity of the State","authors":"Michael Gregory","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper argues against the common justification for the necessity of the state through the particular difficulty of private property right. Instead, I argue that the necessity of the state is internal to the concept of right in general. In order to show this, I point out how Kants adoption of hylomorphic language for the concept of right, where there is a formal and material aspect of right, allows us to understand the Rechtslehre as progressing through a syllogistic deduction from innate right (major), private right (minor) to public right (conclusion). Material right is made necessary through its subsumption under formal right in the civil condition.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"114 1","pages":"539 - 564"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47913933","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1515/kant-2023-2032
M. Walter
{"title":"„Ein unbegreiflich zahlreiches Sternenheer“ – Eine Kupfertafel, ergänzend zu Kants Maupertuis-Rezeption in der NTH (1755)","authors":"M. Walter","doi":"10.1515/kant-2023-2032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2023-2032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In his Treatise on the Figure of the Stars (1732), Maupertuis described bright and elliptic phenomena in the night sky. Based on Maupertuis’s account of these astronomical observations, Kant developed an explanation of his own in his early book on the Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755). For him, these figures were seemingly stars, suns and even whole galaxies, subsystems orbiting a central body or a central sun, held by Kant to be the middle of the universe and a whole, an immense and immeasurable system of many uncountable solar systems. Since Kant did not read Maupertuis’s treatise, he derived his knowledge from a review of the Collected Essays of Maupertuis, in which the Treatise was published (1744). This review appeared in the Nova Acta Eruditorum in April 1745. Alongside this known source, another possible and complementary source on Maupertuis’s theory may have influenced Kant in his thinking: Gottsched’s philosophical textbook First Elements of all Philosophical Disciplines (5th edition, Theoretical part, Vol. I, 1748). The plate beneath the front matter of this book shows a picture of many solar systems. It depicts in detail, and according to Maupertuis’s account, comets signifying the center of different solar systems by the alignment of their tails, pointing in the opposite direction of the center. Gottsched’s book was known to Kant, who mentioned it in at least three lectures on logic. In addition, it was widely read in Königsberg’s intellectual and academic circles, since Gottsched was born not far from Königsberg and was a friend of Knutzen, Flottwell, Scheffner, the Imperial Countess of Keyserlingk, and others.","PeriodicalId":45952,"journal":{"name":"KANT-STUDIEN","volume":"114 1","pages":"565 - 578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41809222","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}