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The Architectonic of Reason - Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Hardcover)
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The Architectonic of Reason - Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Hardcover)
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The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important
sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental
questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope?
Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is
at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being?
Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a
particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its
purposive character. By focusing on the sources, evolution and
function of Kant's concept of purposiveness, this book shows that
the idea of purposiveness that Kant endorses in the Critique of
Pure Reason is a concept of purposiveness as intelligent design,
quite different from the concept of purposiveness as normativity
that will become central to his later works. In the case of
purposiveness as design, the relationship between reason and nature
is anchored to the idea of God. In the case of purposiveness as
normativity, it is anchored to the concept of reflexive judgment,
and grounded on transcendental freedom. Understanding this shift
has important implications for some of the most difficult questions
that confront the Kantian system: the passage from the system of
nature to that of freedom, the relation between faith and
knowledge, the philosophical defence of progress in history, and
the role of religion. It is also crucial to shed light on the way
in which Kant's critique has shaped the successive German
philosophical tradition.
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