KANT'S SYSTEM OF PERSPECTIVES

by Stephen Palmquist (stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk)

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·         Created 2 October 1995

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o    I. Hardcover (US$57.50) by University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1993

o    II. Softcover (approximately US$15) by Philopsychy Press (Hong Kong), 1998

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures (figures appear in printed version only)

List of Tables (tables appear in printed version only)

Note on References

PART ONE: THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF KANT'S SYSTEM

·         I. Introductory Guidelines for Interpretation

o    1. The Systematic Character of Kant's Philosophy

o    2. Models and Metaphors in Systematic Thinking

o    3. Kant's Preference for Geometrical Metaphors

o    4. The Scope of This Study

·         II. The Principle of Perspective

o    1. Kant's Perspectival Revolution

o    2. Kant's Use of the Principle of Perspective

o    3. Textual Evidence: Perspectival Equivalents in Kt1

§  A. Exact Equivalents

§  B. Categorial Equivalents

§  C. Instrumental Equivalents

§  D. Incidental Equivalents

o    4. The Levels of Perspectives in Kant's System

·         III. The Architectonic Form of Kant's Copernican System

o    1. The Copernican Turn

o    2. Kant's Logic and the Structure of His Three Critiques

o    3. The Analytic and Synthetic Basis of Kant's Twelvefold Pattern

o    4. Formal Logic as a Pattern for Kant's Transcendental System

PART TWO: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF KANT'S SYSTEM

·         IV. Knowledge and Experience

o    1. The Fundamental Epistemological Distinction

o    2. Two Secondary Epistemological Distinctions

o    3. The Four Reflective Perspectives

o    4. A Summary and Model of Kant's Reflective Method

·         V. Faith as Kant's Key to Justifying the Transcendental Perspective

o    1. Faith and Kant's Transcendental Turn

o    2. Filling the Transcendent 'Space'

o    3. Transcendental Arguments or a Concession to the Skeptic?

o    4. Theoretical Faith and Practical Faith

·         VI. Two Perspectives on the Object of Knowledge

o    1. Kant's Six 'Object-Terms'

o    2. Kant's Transcendental Object-Terms

o    3. Kant's Empirical Object-Terms

o    4. A Summary and Three Models of Kant's Six Object-Terms

PART THREE: THE TRANSCENDENTAL ELEMENTS OF KANT'S SYSTEM

·         VII. Kant's System of Theoretical Perspectives

o    1. The Four Stages of Representation in General

o    2. The Abstract Conditions of Knowing (-)

§  A. Intuitive Sensibility (--)

§  B. Conceptual Understanding (+-)

o    3. The Concrete Conditions of Knowing (+)

§  A. Determinate Judgment (-+)

§  B. Inferential Reason (++)

o    4. An Analytic Summary and a Synthetic Model

·         VIII. Kant's System of Practical Perspectives

o    1. The Shift from the Theoretical to the Practical Standpoint

o    2. The Abstract Conditions of Moral Action (-)

§  A. Free Will (--)

§  B. The Moral Law (+-)

o    3. The Concrete Conditions of Moral Action (+)

§  A. Moral Judgment (-+)

§  B. The Final End of Morality (++)

o    4. An Analytic Summary and a Synthetic Model

·         IX. Kant's System of Judicial Perspectives

o    1. The Shift from the Practical to the Judicial Standpoint

o    2. The Aesthetic Judgment of Subjective Finality

§  A. The Beautiful

§  B. The Sublime

o    3. The Teleological Judgment of Objective Finality

§  A. Physical Ends

§  B. Teleology and Theology

o    4. Kant's Threefold Synthesis of Systems

PART FOUR: THE METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF KANT'S SYSTEM

·         X. Religion and God in Perspective

o    1. The Metaphysical Perspective in Kant's System

o    2. Critical Theology and the Existence of God

o    3. Critical Religion and the Universality of Christianity

o    4. Critical Mysticism and the End of Philosophy

·         XI. Science and Freedom in Perspective

o    1. Metaphysics and the Foundations of Science

o    2. Kant and the Copernican Revolutions of Modern Science

o    3. Critical Science and the Purpose of Nature

o    4. Critical Medicine and the Hypothetical Method in Science

·         XII. Politics and Immortality in Perspective

o    1. Metaphysics and the Foundations of Politics

o    2. The Highest Good as the Focal Point for Immortality

o    3. Critical Politics and Human History

o    4. The Theocratic End of All Politics

APPENDICES

·         I. Acknowledgments and Historical Sketch

·         II. An Explanation of Terminological Changes

·         III. Common Objections to Architectonic Reasoning

·         IV. Some Post-Kantian Variations of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction

·         V. The Radical Unknowability of the Thing in Itself

o    A. Transcendental Arguments for the Thing in Itself

o    B. The Status of the Four Basic Knowledge-Claims

o    C. Three Common Interpretive Errors

o    D. Caveat and Conclusion

·         VI. Resolution of Problems Associated with Kant's Object-Terms

·         VII. Clarification of Some Ambiguities in Systemt

o    A. The Faculty of Representation

o    B. Placement of the Transcendental Object in Systemt

o    C. Mathematical Judgments

o    D. Inner and Outer Sense

o    E. Forms of Imagination

o    F. Categories and Conceptual Schemes

o    G. Varieties of Deduction

o    H. Schematism

o    I. Principles

o    J. Ideas

·         VIII. The Noumenal and Phenomenal Realms in Perspective

·         IX. Reconsiderations on the Systematic Coherence of Kt7

o    A. Hints in Part One

o    B. A Single System?

BIBLIOGRAPHY, GLOSSARY AND INDEX

·         Bibliography: Introductory Note

o    Part One: Kant's Works (Kt)

§  I. Primary Systematic Works

§  II. Other Publications and Lectures

§  1. The Theoretical Standpoint

§  2. The Practical Standpoint

§  A. Ethics and Politics

§  B. Philosophy of Education

§  3. The Judicial Standpoint

§  A. Philosophy of Nature

§  B. Philosophical Anthropology

§  III. Unpublished Writings

§  1. Letters

§  2. Handwritten Notes and Essays

§  3. Reconstructions of Lectures

§  IV. Collections of Translations

o    Part Two: Other Sources

·         Glossary of Kant's Technical Terms

·         Index

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