Transcendental Aesthetic Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

2021_Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
Link_https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/agph-2018-0022/html

The argument of this paper goes as follows: Beck claims that the only transcendental standpoint consists in a synthetic act whose articulation in judgments merely shows what can be produced and derived from the postulate: ‘represent originally’. My analysis of Beck’s arguments showed how he disregards Kant’s account of the distinctions and the interactions between reason’s faculties, thus misunderstanding the normative aspect of Judgment, regarding its elements (concepts and intuitions) as well as regarding its legislation for experience (the transcendental principles). From Kant’s point of view, the main function of Judgment is that of bringing lawful unity into all synthesis, thus making every kind of experience possible. All of our legitimate cognitive, moral and aesthetical claims result from the application of rules and the determination of laws. And together they arise as a whole in the form of a system. While this topic cannot be developed completely on these pages, my very restricted concern is to suggest that the standpoint of Judgment is the only one we should consider when we demand, as Beck did, to have the last word on Kant’s critical philosophy as a whole. And indeed, the standpoint of Judgment alone allows us to give a general account for the systematical coexistence of all reason’s legislation in the domains of nature and freedom. For pure reason in its critical role is always committed to ground the legitimacy of its claims, and the capacity to judge is reason’s armed wing (or executive power) in the world of human experience.