The Teleology of Reason : : A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy / / Courtney D. Fugate.

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• VerfasserIn: Fugate, Courtney D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte , 178
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (433 p.)

This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant’s critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of its fundamental arguments and provide a key to understanding its unity. It thus aims, through an examination of each of Kant’s major writings, to provide a detailed interpretation of his claim that philosophy in the true sense must consist of a teleologia rationis humanae.The author argues that Kant’s critical philosophy forged a new link between traditional teleological concepts and the basic structure of rationality, one that would later inform the dynamic conception of reason at the heart of German Idealism. The process by which this was accomplished began with Kant’s development of a uniquely teleological conception of systematic unity already in the precritical period. The individual chapters of this work attempt to show how Kant adapted and refined this conception of systematic unity so that it came to form the structural basis for the critical philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations and the Use of Translations -- Part I: Preliminary Investigations -- Chapter 1 Motivations -- Chapter 2 Teleology: Rudiments of a Theory -- Part II: The Teleology of Human Knowledge -- Chapter 3 The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Experience -- Chapter 4 Teleology in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic -- Chapter 5 Teleology in the Transcendental Dialectic -- Part III: The Teleology of Freedom -- Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 6 The Teleology of Freedom: The Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the Analytic -- Chapter 7 Kant on Rational Faith as an Expression of Autonomy -- Chapter 8 The Teleological Unity of Reason and Kant’s Idea of Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Register