KANT'S SYSTEM OF PERSPECTIVES







KANT'S SYSTEM OF
PERSPECTIVES


by Stephen Palmquist (stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk)


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Created 2 October 1995 


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I. Hardcover (US$57.50) by University Press of America
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TABLE OF CONTENTS


List of Figures (figures
appear in printed version only) 


List of Tables (tables
appear in printed version only) 


Note on References


PART ONE: THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF KANT'S SYSTEM


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I.
Introductory Guidelines for Interpretation 


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1. The Systematic Character of Kant's Philosophy 


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2. Models and Metaphors in Systematic Thinking 


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3. Kant's Preference for Geometrical Metaphors 


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4. The Scope of This Study 


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II. The
Principle of Perspective 


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1. Kant's Perspectival Revolution 


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2. Kant's Use of the Principle of Perspective 


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3. Textual Evidence: Perspectival Equivalents in Kt1 


§  A. Exact
Equivalents 


§  B. Categorial
Equivalents 


§  C. Instrumental
Equivalents 


§  D. Incidental
Equivalents 


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4. The Levels of Perspectives in Kant's System 


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III.
The Architectonic Form of Kant's Copernican System 


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1. The Copernican Turn 


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2. Kant's Logic and the Structure of His Three Critiques 


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3. The Analytic and Synthetic Basis of Kant's Twelvefold
Pattern 


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4. Formal Logic as a Pattern for Kant's Transcendental
System 


PART TWO: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF KANT'S SYSTEM


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IV. Knowledge
and Experience 


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1. The Fundamental Epistemological Distinction 


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2. Two Secondary Epistemological Distinctions 


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3. The Four Reflective Perspectives 


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4. A Summary and Model of Kant's Reflective Method 


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V.
Faith as Kant's Key to Justifying the Transcendental Perspective 


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1. Faith and Kant's Transcendental Turn 


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2. Filling the Transcendent 'Space' 


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3. Transcendental Arguments or a Concession to the Skeptic? 


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4. Theoretical Faith and Practical Faith 


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VI. Two
Perspectives on the Object of Knowledge 


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1. Kant's Six 'Object-Terms' 


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2. Kant's Transcendental Object-Terms 


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3. Kant's Empirical Object-Terms 


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4. A Summary and Three Models of Kant's Six Object-Terms 


PART THREE: THE TRANSCENDENTAL ELEMENTS OF KANT'S SYSTEM


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VII.
Kant's System of Theoretical Perspectives 


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1. The Four Stages of Representation in General 


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2. The Abstract Conditions of Knowing (-) 


§  A. Intuitive
Sensibility (--) 


§  B. Conceptual
Understanding (+-) 


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3. The Concrete Conditions of Knowing (+) 


§  A. Determinate
Judgment (-+) 


§  B. Inferential
Reason (++) 


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4. An Analytic Summary and a Synthetic Model 


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VIII.
Kant's System of Practical Perspectives 


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1. The Shift from the Theoretical to the Practical
Standpoint 


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2. The Abstract Conditions of Moral Action (-) 


§  A. Free Will (--) 


§  B. The Moral Law
(+-) 


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3. The Concrete Conditions of Moral Action (+) 


§  A. Moral Judgment
(-+) 


§  B. The Final End
of Morality (++) 


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4. An Analytic Summary and a Synthetic Model 


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IX.
Kant's System of Judicial Perspectives 


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1. The Shift from the Practical to the Judicial Standpoint 


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2. The Aesthetic Judgment of Subjective Finality 


§  A. The Beautiful 


§  B. The Sublime 


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3. The Teleological Judgment of Objective Finality 


§  A. Physical Ends 


§  B. Teleology and
Theology 


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4. Kant's Threefold Synthesis of Systems 


PART FOUR: THE METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF KANT'S SYSTEM


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X.
Religion and God in Perspective 


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1. The Metaphysical Perspective in Kant's System 


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2. Critical Theology and the Existence of God 


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3. Critical Religion and the Universality of Christianity 


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4. Critical Mysticism and the End of Philosophy 


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XI.
Science and Freedom in Perspective 


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1. Metaphysics and the Foundations of Science 


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2. Kant and the Copernican Revolutions of Modern Science 


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3. Critical Science and the Purpose of Nature 


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4. Critical Medicine and the Hypothetical Method in Science 


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XII.
Politics and Immortality in Perspective 


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1. Metaphysics and the Foundations of Politics 


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2. The Highest Good as the Focal Point for Immortality 


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3. Critical Politics and Human History 


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4. The Theocratic End of All Politics 


APPENDICES


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I.
Acknowledgments and Historical Sketch 


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II. An
Explanation of Terminological Changes 


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III.
Common Objections to Architectonic Reasoning 


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IV.
Some Post-Kantian Variations of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction 


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V. The
Radical Unknowability of the Thing in Itself 


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A. Transcendental Arguments for the Thing in Itself 


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B. The Status of the Four Basic Knowledge-Claims 


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C. Three Common Interpretive Errors 


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D. Caveat and Conclusion 


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VI.
Resolution of Problems Associated with Kant's Object-Terms 


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VII.
Clarification of Some Ambiguities in Systemt 


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A. The Faculty of Representation 


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B. Placement of the Transcendental Object in Systemt 


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C. Mathematical Judgments 


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D. Inner and Outer Sense 


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E. Forms of Imagination 


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F. Categories and Conceptual Schemes 


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G. Varieties of Deduction 


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H. Schematism 


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I. Principles 


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J. Ideas 


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VIII.
The Noumenal and Phenomenal Realms in Perspective 


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IX.
Reconsiderations on the Systematic Coherence of Kt7 


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A. Hints in Part One 


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B. A Single System? 


BIBLIOGRAPHY, GLOSSARY AND INDEX


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Bibliography:
Introductory Note 


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Part
One: Kant's Works (Kt) 


§  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 


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Part
Two: Other Sources 


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Glossary
of Kant's Technical Terms 


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Index 





 


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