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Kant's Worldview - How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension (Paperback)
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Kant's Worldview - How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension (Paperback)
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In Kant's Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension,
Rudolf A. Makkreel offers a new interpretation of Immanuel Kant's
theory of judgment that clarifies Kant's well-known suggestion that
a genuine philosophy is guided by a world-concept (Weltbegriff).
Makkreel shows that Kant increasingly expands the role of judgment
from its logical and epistemic tasks to its reflective capacity to
evaluate objects and contextualize them in worldly terms. And
Makkreel shows that this final orientational power of judgment
supplements the cognition of the understanding with the
comprehension originally assigned to reason. To comprehend,
according to Kant, is to possess sufficient insight into situations
so as to also achieve some purpose. This requires that reason be
applied with the discernment that reflective judgment makes
possible. Comprehension, practical as well as theoretical, can fill
in Kant's world concept and his sublime evocation of a
Weltanschauung with a more down-to-earth worldview. Scholars have
recently stressed Kant's impure ethics, his nonideal politics, and
his pragmatism. Makkreel complements these efforts by using Kant's
ethical, sociopolitical, religious, and anthropological writings to
provide a more encompassing account of the role of human beings in
the world. The result is a major contribution to our understanding
of Kant and the history of European philosophy.
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