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