KANT'S SYSTEM OF
PERSPECTIVES
by Stephen Palmquist (stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk)
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Full Text ASCII Archive
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Copyright Stephen Palmquist, stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk
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Created 2 October 1995
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Printed versions:
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I. Hardcover (US$57.50) by University Press of America
(Lanham, MD), 1993
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II. Softcover (approximately US$15) by Philopsychy Press
(Hong Kong), 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures (figures appear in printed version only)
List of Tables (tables appear in printed version only)
PART ONE: THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF KANT'S SYSTEM
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I.
Introductory Guidelines for Interpretation
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1. The Systematic Character of Kant's Philosophy
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2. Models and Metaphors in Systematic Thinking
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3. Kant's Preference for Geometrical Metaphors
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4. The Scope of This Study
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II. The
Principle of Perspective
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1. Kant's Perspectival Revolution
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2. Kant's Use of the Principle of Perspective
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3. Textual Evidence: Perspectival Equivalents in Kt1
� A. Exact
Equivalents
� B. Categorial
Equivalents
� C. Instrumental
Equivalents
� D. Incidental
Equivalents
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4. The Levels of Perspectives in Kant's System
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III.
The Architectonic Form of Kant's Copernican System
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1. The Copernican Turn
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2. Kant's Logic and the Structure of His Three Critiques
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3. The Analytic and Synthetic Basis of Kant's Twelvefold
Pattern
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4. Formal Logic as a Pattern for Kant's Transcendental
System
PART TWO: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF KANT'S SYSTEM
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IV. Knowledge
and Experience
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1. The Fundamental Epistemological Distinction
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2. Two Secondary Epistemological Distinctions
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3. The Four Reflective Perspectives
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4. A Summary and Model of Kant's Reflective Method
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V.
Faith as Kant's Key to Justifying the Transcendental Perspective
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1. Faith and Kant's Transcendental Turn
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2. Filling the Transcendent 'Space'
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3. Transcendental Arguments or a Concession to the Skeptic?
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4. Theoretical Faith and Practical Faith
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VI. Two
Perspectives on the Object of Knowledge
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1. Kant's Six 'Object-Terms'
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2. Kant's Transcendental Object-Terms
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3. Kant's Empirical Object-Terms
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4. A Summary and Three Models of Kant's Six Object-Terms
PART THREE: THE TRANSCENDENTAL ELEMENTS OF KANT'S SYSTEM
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VII.
Kant's System of Theoretical Perspectives
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1. The Four Stages of Representation in General
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2. The Abstract Conditions of Knowing (-)
� A. Intuitive
Sensibility (--)
� B. Conceptual
Understanding (+-)
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3. The Concrete Conditions of Knowing (+)
� A. Determinate
Judgment (-+)
� B. Inferential
Reason (++)
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4. An Analytic Summary and a Synthetic Model
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VIII.
Kant's System of Practical Perspectives
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1. The Shift from the Theoretical to the Practical
Standpoint
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2. The Abstract Conditions of Moral Action (-)
� A. Free Will (--)
� B. The Moral Law
(+-)
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3. The Concrete Conditions of Moral Action (+)
� A. Moral Judgment
(-+)
� B. The Final End
of Morality (++)
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4. An Analytic Summary and a Synthetic Model
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IX.
Kant's System of Judicial Perspectives
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1. The Shift from the Practical to the Judicial Standpoint
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2. The Aesthetic Judgment of Subjective Finality
� A. The Beautiful
� B. The Sublime
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3. The Teleological Judgment of Objective Finality
� A. Physical Ends
� B. Teleology and
Theology
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4. Kant's Threefold Synthesis of Systems
PART FOUR: THE METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF KANT'S SYSTEM
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X.
Religion and God in Perspective
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1. The Metaphysical Perspective in Kant's System
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2. Critical Theology and the Existence of God
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3. Critical Religion and the Universality of Christianity
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4. Critical Mysticism and the End of Philosophy
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XI.
Science and Freedom in Perspective
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1. Metaphysics and the Foundations of Science
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2. Kant and the Copernican Revolutions of Modern Science
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3. Critical Science and the Purpose of Nature
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4. Critical Medicine and the Hypothetical Method in Science
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XII.
Politics and Immortality in Perspective
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1. Metaphysics and the Foundations of Politics
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2. The Highest Good as the Focal Point for Immortality
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3. Critical Politics and Human History
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4. The Theocratic End of All Politics
APPENDICES
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I.
Acknowledgments and Historical Sketch
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II. An
Explanation of Terminological Changes
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III.
Common Objections to Architectonic Reasoning
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IV.
Some Post-Kantian Variations of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction
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V. The
Radical Unknowability of the Thing in Itself
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A. Transcendental Arguments for the Thing in Itself
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B. The Status of the Four Basic Knowledge-Claims
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C. Three Common Interpretive Errors
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D. Caveat and Conclusion
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VI.
Resolution of Problems Associated with Kant's Object-Terms
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VII.
Clarification of Some Ambiguities in Systemt
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A. The Faculty of Representation
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B. Placement of the Transcendental Object in Systemt
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C. Mathematical Judgments
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D. Inner and Outer Sense
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E. Forms of Imagination
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F. Categories and Conceptual Schemes
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G. Varieties of Deduction
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H. Schematism
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I. Principles
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J. Ideas
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VIII.
The Noumenal and Phenomenal Realms in Perspective
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IX.
Reconsiderations on the Systematic Coherence of Kt7
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A. Hints in Part One
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B. A Single System?
BIBLIOGRAPHY, GLOSSARY AND INDEX
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Bibliography:
Introductory Note
� 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
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Glossary
of Kant's Technical Terms
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Index
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