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Trop souvent l’on ne trouve que le Nietzsche qu’on cherchait. On s’approprie, en fonction de pré... more Trop souvent l’on ne trouve que le Nietzsche qu’on cherchait. On
s’approprie, en fonction de préjugés, ce qui est immédiatement appropriable. La
schématisation perd alors son sens comme moyen de s’approcher de ce qui demeure
irrémédiablement complexe.
La méthode nietzschéenne de la généalogie prend tout son sens au cœur même de
ce problème, qui n’est rien d’autre que la formation de ses lecteurs.
The heart of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is undoubtedly the Transcendental Deduction: it serve... more The heart of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is undoubtedly the Transcendental Deduction: it serves as both core of the Analytic and necessary precursor to the Dialectic. After arguing for the ideality of space and time as the forms of outer and inner intuition, and offering us the Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories, Kant notes that the categories pose a problem that the forms of sensibility did not. It is easy to see how space and time have objective validity, or necessary application to the representations that make up experience, if it is only within space and time that objects can appear to us. What is not yet clear is whether it can be shown that the categories necessarily apply to experience. Kant expresses this as the problem of explaining how " subjective conditions of thinking should have objective validity " (A90/B122-123). One could obviously argue that the pure concepts are only necessary conditions for objects qua thought, not for the constitution of objects as objects. The specter thus arises of an unbridgeable gulf in the heart of Kant's system, between sensibility on the one hand, where things are given, and our understanding, which must think the given. This possibility—which is as great a concern as accounting for the relation between res cogitans and res extensa for Cartesian metaphysics—is the central issue that Kant must address in the Transcendental Deduction. Kant's project stands or falls with the success of the Deduction, so its exegesis must be of the utmost concern for any interpreter. As Kant puts it, " We must surrender completely all claims to insights of pure reason in its favorite field, namely that beyond the boundaries of all possible experience, or else perfect this critical investigation " (A89/B121-122). Whether it is possible to save the project of the Critique is not clear. Addressing this larger issue, however,
Papers by Timothy Chatman
Chapter 5, Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2015
Teaching Documents by Timothy Chatman
Required texts: Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentiali... more Required texts:
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism is a Humanism
Martin Heidegger: texts to be provided.
Peter Sloterdijk: texts to be provided.
Dominique Janicaud: On the Human Condition
Richard Rorty: Philosophy and Social Hope
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Trop souvent l’on ne trouve que le Nietzsche qu’on cherchait. On s’approprie, en fonction de pré... more Trop souvent l’on ne trouve que le Nietzsche qu’on cherchait. On
s’approprie, en fonction de préjugés, ce qui est immédiatement appropriable. La
schématisation perd alors son sens comme moyen de s’approcher de ce qui demeure
irrémédiablement complexe.
La méthode nietzschéenne de la généalogie prend tout son sens au cœur même de
ce problème, qui n’est rien d’autre que la formation de ses lecteurs.
The heart of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is undoubtedly the Transcendental Deduction: it serve... more The heart of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is undoubtedly the Transcendental Deduction: it serves as both core of the Analytic and necessary precursor to the Dialectic. After arguing for the ideality of space and time as the forms of outer and inner intuition, and offering us the Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories, Kant notes that the categories pose a problem that the forms of sensibility did not. It is easy to see how space and time have objective validity, or necessary application to the representations that make up experience, if it is only within space and time that objects can appear to us. What is not yet clear is whether it can be shown that the categories necessarily apply to experience. Kant expresses this as the problem of explaining how " subjective conditions of thinking should have objective validity " (A90/B122-123). One could obviously argue that the pure concepts are only necessary conditions for objects qua thought, not for the constitution of objects as objects. The specter thus arises of an unbridgeable gulf in the heart of Kant's system, between sensibility on the one hand, where things are given, and our understanding, which must think the given. This possibility—which is as great a concern as accounting for the relation between res cogitans and res extensa for Cartesian metaphysics—is the central issue that Kant must address in the Transcendental Deduction. Kant's project stands or falls with the success of the Deduction, so its exegesis must be of the utmost concern for any interpreter. As Kant puts it, " We must surrender completely all claims to insights of pure reason in its favorite field, namely that beyond the boundaries of all possible experience, or else perfect this critical investigation " (A89/B121-122). Whether it is possible to save the project of the Critique is not clear. Addressing this larger issue, however,
Chapter 5, Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2015
Required texts: Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentiali... more Required texts:
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism is a Humanism
Martin Heidegger: texts to be provided.
Peter Sloterdijk: texts to be provided.
Dominique Janicaud: On the Human Condition
Richard Rorty: Philosophy and Social Hope
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions