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Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the third Critique
Cambridge University Press, 2022
DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors Kant's Critique of Judgment seems not to be ... more DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors
Kant's Critique of Judgment seems not to be an obviously unified work. Unlike other attempts to comprehend it as a unity, which treat it as serving either practical or theoretical interests, Kristi Sweet's book posits it as examining a genuinely independent sphere of human life. In her in-depth account of Kant's Critical philosophical system, Sweet argues that the Critique addresses the question: for what may I hope? The answer is given in Kant's account of 'territory,' a region of experience that both underlies and mediates between freedom and nature. Territory forms the context in which purposiveness without a purpose, the Ideal of Beauty, the sensus communis, genius and aesthetic ideas, and Kant's conception of life and proof of God are best interpreted. Encounters in this sphere are shown to refer us to a larger, more cosmic sense of a whole to which both freedom and nature belong.
Argues that the question to which the third Critique speaks is: for what may I hope
Treats historically dismissed sections of the text as central to Kant's project
Presents two seemingly disparate sections of Kant's third Critique as part of a unified project of completing his critical system
Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History
Cambridge University Press, 2013
Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, la... more Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends.
Gives a distinctive account of what motivates Kant's practical philosophy
Discusses Kant's views on ethics, politics, religion, culture and history
Offers a new framework for interpreting long-debated issues in Kant scholarship
Book Reviews by Kristi Sweet
Review of Kant on Practical Life in Kantian Review, by Eric Wilson
Review of Kant on Practical Life in Journal of the History of Philosophy, by Susan Castro
Critique: Discussing New Books on Kant and German Idealism; Discussion of Kant on Practical Life with Stefano Bacon and Kate Moran
Review of Kant on Practical Life in Notre Dame Philosophical Review
Papers by Kristi Sweet
Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment
Between Cognition and Morality
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 1, 2018
Freedom of the self over time
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 5, 2013
Human finitude undone
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 5, 2013
Enacting the moral world
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 5, 2013
Kant on Practical Life
Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, ... more Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends.
Kant and the Culture of Discipline
Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2010
Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In... more Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In this paper, however, I explore the importance of culture for Kant's doctrine of virtue, and argue that culture affords a new way—contra immortality—to think the possibility of attaining virtue. As I show, Kant identifies culture as a site of the self-effacement of nature in its influence on the will. Because of this, we see that for Kant the task of virtue encounters nature not only as obstacle, but also as something that serves, promotes, and advances virtue.
Kant and Mendelssohn
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Sep 24, 2018
Kant and Mendelssohn
Kant and his German Contemporaries
Freedom of the self and the moral world
Kant on Practical Life
Between Cognition and Morality
Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Kant on practical life: from duty to history
Choice Reviews Online, 2014
Introduction 1. Freedom of the self as such: the good will, duty, and moral feeling 2. Freedom of... more Introduction 1. Freedom of the self as such: the good will, duty, and moral feeling 2. Freedom of the self over time: virtue 3. Freedom of the self and the moral world: the highest good 4. Enacting the moral world: founding and promoting a civil condition 5. Enacting the moral world: joining the ethical community 6. Human finitude undone: culture and history Conclusion: practical reason's 'peculiar fate'.
Kant and the Culture of Discipline
Epoché, 2010
Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In... more Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In this paper, however, I explore the importance of culture for Kant's doctrine of virtue, and argue that culture affords a new way—contra immortality—to think the possibility of attaining virtue. As I show, Kant identifies culture as a site of the self-effacement of nature in its influence on the will. Because of this, we see that for Kant the task of virtue encounters nature not only as obstacle, but also as something that serves, promotes, and advances virtue.
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2017
In this essay, I argue that Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is fundamentally a... more In this essay, I argue that Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is fundamentally about the sphere of civilization, and, with this, a particular kind of philosophical self-understanding. By civilization, Kant means to indicate the process by which human beings transform their inner natures based on pragmatic or prudential considerations born of our living together. Civilization is what we do to ourselves in order to get along with others with whom we share the earth. In the Anthropology, what we come to understand about ourselves is the possibility of transforming our inner natures based on our will.
Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the third Critique
Cambridge University Press, 2022
DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors Kant's Critique of Judgment seems not to be ... more DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors
Kant's Critique of Judgment seems not to be an obviously unified work. Unlike other attempts to comprehend it as a unity, which treat it as serving either practical or theoretical interests, Kristi Sweet's book posits it as examining a genuinely independent sphere of human life. In her in-depth account of Kant's Critical philosophical system, Sweet argues that the Critique addresses the question: for what may I hope? The answer is given in Kant's account of 'territory,' a region of experience that both underlies and mediates between freedom and nature. Territory forms the context in which purposiveness without a purpose, the Ideal of Beauty, the sensus communis, genius and aesthetic ideas, and Kant's conception of life and proof of God are best interpreted. Encounters in this sphere are shown to refer us to a larger, more cosmic sense of a whole to which both freedom and nature belong.
Argues that the question to which the third Critique speaks is: for what may I hope
Treats historically dismissed sections of the text as central to Kant's project
Presents two seemingly disparate sections of Kant's third Critique as part of a unified project of completing his critical system
Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History
Cambridge University Press, 2013
Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, la... more Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends.
Gives a distinctive account of what motivates Kant's practical philosophy
Discusses Kant's views on ethics, politics, religion, culture and history
Offers a new framework for interpreting long-debated issues in Kant scholarship
Review of Kant on Practical Life in Kantian Review, by Eric Wilson
Review of Kant on Practical Life in Journal of the History of Philosophy, by Susan Castro
Critique: Discussing New Books on Kant and German Idealism; Discussion of Kant on Practical Life with Stefano Bacon and Kate Moran
Review of Kant on Practical Life in Notre Dame Philosophical Review
Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment
Between Cognition and Morality
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 1, 2018
Freedom of the self over time
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 5, 2013
Human finitude undone
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 5, 2013
Enacting the moral world
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 5, 2013
Kant on Practical Life
Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, ... more Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends.
Kant and the Culture of Discipline
Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2010
Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In... more Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In this paper, however, I explore the importance of culture for Kant's doctrine of virtue, and argue that culture affords a new way—contra immortality—to think the possibility of attaining virtue. As I show, Kant identifies culture as a site of the self-effacement of nature in its influence on the will. Because of this, we see that for Kant the task of virtue encounters nature not only as obstacle, but also as something that serves, promotes, and advances virtue.
Kant and Mendelssohn
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Sep 24, 2018
Kant and Mendelssohn
Kant and his German Contemporaries
Freedom of the self and the moral world
Kant on Practical Life
Between Cognition and Morality
Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Kant on practical life: from duty to history
Choice Reviews Online, 2014
Introduction 1. Freedom of the self as such: the good will, duty, and moral feeling 2. Freedom of... more Introduction 1. Freedom of the self as such: the good will, duty, and moral feeling 2. Freedom of the self over time: virtue 3. Freedom of the self and the moral world: the highest good 4. Enacting the moral world: founding and promoting a civil condition 5. Enacting the moral world: joining the ethical community 6. Human finitude undone: culture and history Conclusion: practical reason's 'peculiar fate'.
Kant and the Culture of Discipline
Epoché, 2010
Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In... more Kant's notion of culture is typically treated in the context of his philosophy of history. In this paper, however, I explore the importance of culture for Kant's doctrine of virtue, and argue that culture affords a new way—contra immortality—to think the possibility of attaining virtue. As I show, Kant identifies culture as a site of the self-effacement of nature in its influence on the will. Because of this, we see that for Kant the task of virtue encounters nature not only as obstacle, but also as something that serves, promotes, and advances virtue.
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2017
In this essay, I argue that Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is fundamentally a... more In this essay, I argue that Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is fundamentally about the sphere of civilization, and, with this, a particular kind of philosophical self-understanding. By civilization, Kant means to indicate the process by which human beings transform their inner natures based on pragmatic or prudential considerations born of our living together. Civilization is what we do to ourselves in order to get along with others with whom we share the earth. In the Anthropology, what we come to understand about ourselves is the possibility of transforming our inner natures based on our will.
Practical reason’s ‘peculiar fate’
Kant on Practical Life, 2013
Enacting the moral world
Kant on Practical Life, 2013
Human finitude undone
Kant on Practical Life, 2013
Freedom of the self over time
Kant on Practical Life, 2013
Kant on Practical Life
Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, ... more Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends.
Reflection: Its Structure and Meaning in Kant's Judgements of Taste
Kantian Review, 2009
When Kant announces in a letter to Reinhold that he has discovered a new domain of a priori princ... more When Kant announces in a letter to Reinhold that he has discovered a new domain of a priori principles, he situates these principles in a ‘faculty of feeling pleasure and displeasure’ (Zammito 1992: 47). And it is indeed in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, named in this letter the Critique of Taste, that we find his elucidation of the relation of the principle of purposiveness to the feeling of pleasure. The kinds of judgements in which our feelings are evaluated in accordance with a principle are what Kant names reflective judgements. And while reflective judgements emerge in the third Critique to include not only judgements of taste, but also judgements of the sublime and teleological judgements of nature, in this paper I will focus on the first, as the question of the relatedness of reflection to pleasure is most pronounced in this context. There is no consensus in Kant scholarship as to what the structure of reflective judgements is, as evidenced by the widely disparate view...