By investigating conceptions of experience from Descartes to Kant, this book shows that one of the central questions of the early-modern period was how humans can instantiate in their actions the principles of rational moral agency, while at the same time responding with their bodies to the causal play of nature. Through the analysis of this question, the book draws attention to the bodily underpinnings of the ability to experience thoughts and feelings. It thus challenges overly subjectivist interpretations that concentrate on the inner realm of the experiencing mind and because of this fail…mehr
By investigating conceptions of experience from Descartes to Kant, this book shows that one of the central questions of the early-modern period was how humans can instantiate in their actions the principles of rational moral agency, while at the same time responding with their bodies to the causal play of nature. Through the analysis of this question, the book draws attention to the bodily underpinnings of the ability to experience thoughts and feelings. It thus challenges overly subjectivist interpretations that concentrate on the inner realm of the experiencing mind and because of this fail to account for the worldly dimension of being experientially responsive to the affections of the body.
Anik Waldow is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney. She mainly works in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, early modern theories of personal identity and the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism and associationist theories of thought and language. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum 2009), editor of Sensibility in the Early Modern Era: From Living Machines to Affective Morality (Routledge 2016), and co-edited Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology (OUP 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * Introduction * Part I: The Moral Importance of Experience * Chapter 1: Experience and Cartesian Agency * 1.1 Experiencing and Knowing the Self * 1.2 Confused Notions of Body and Mind * 1.3 Agency in the Conduct of Life * 1.4 Conclusion * Chapter 2: Locke's Experiential Persons * 2.1 On the Mental and Bodily Dimension of Reward and Punishment * 2.2 Habit Training versus Conditioning * 2.3 Persons as Agents * 2.4 Reason, Reflection and Correction * 2.5 Conclusion * Part II: On the Continuity between Sensibility and Reason * Chapter 3: Moral Reflection as Perception: A Humean Account * 3.1 What is Natural about Human Nature? * 3.2 Sympathy, Perception and Reflection * 3.3 History and the Refinement of Moral Capacities * 3.4 Conclusion * Chapter 4: Manipulated Sensibilities: Rousseau on Human Nature * 4.1 The Theatre, Moral Education and Affective Susceptibility * 4.2 Rousseau's Attack * 4.3 Natural Goodness and the Construction of Morality * 4.4 Normativity and Nature * 4.5 Conclusion * Chapter 5: Affect and Imagination in Processes of Cognition: Herder * 5.1 The Sensing Body and the Emergence of Language * 5.2 Reason as an Organisational Principle * 5.3 Discovering the World through Imagination and Affect * 5.4 Conclusion * Part III: How to Study the Human Being? Philosophy and the Empirical Method * Chapter 6: Natural History and the Formation of the Human Being: Kant and Herder * 6.1 The Human Place in Nature * 6.2 The Organic Growth of History * 6.3 Historical Explanations * 6.4 Conclusion * Chapter 7: Diversifying Method: Kant's Janus-Faced Conception of the Human Being * 7.1 Environmental Determinism * 7.2 Kant's Dual-Aspect Account of Character * 7.3 Anthropology as a Pragmatic Endeavour * 7.4 Philosophy and the Sciences * 7.5 Conclusion * Coda: Experience Embodied * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * Introduction * Part I: The Moral Importance of Experience * Chapter 1: Experience and Cartesian Agency * 1.1 Experiencing and Knowing the Self * 1.2 Confused Notions of Body and Mind * 1.3 Agency in the Conduct of Life * 1.4 Conclusion * Chapter 2: Locke's Experiential Persons * 2.1 On the Mental and Bodily Dimension of Reward and Punishment * 2.2 Habit Training versus Conditioning * 2.3 Persons as Agents * 2.4 Reason, Reflection and Correction * 2.5 Conclusion * Part II: On the Continuity between Sensibility and Reason * Chapter 3: Moral Reflection as Perception: A Humean Account * 3.1 What is Natural about Human Nature? * 3.2 Sympathy, Perception and Reflection * 3.3 History and the Refinement of Moral Capacities * 3.4 Conclusion * Chapter 4: Manipulated Sensibilities: Rousseau on Human Nature * 4.1 The Theatre, Moral Education and Affective Susceptibility * 4.2 Rousseau's Attack * 4.3 Natural Goodness and the Construction of Morality * 4.4 Normativity and Nature * 4.5 Conclusion * Chapter 5: Affect and Imagination in Processes of Cognition: Herder * 5.1 The Sensing Body and the Emergence of Language * 5.2 Reason as an Organisational Principle * 5.3 Discovering the World through Imagination and Affect * 5.4 Conclusion * Part III: How to Study the Human Being? Philosophy and the Empirical Method * Chapter 6: Natural History and the Formation of the Human Being: Kant and Herder * 6.1 The Human Place in Nature * 6.2 The Organic Growth of History * 6.3 Historical Explanations * 6.4 Conclusion * Chapter 7: Diversifying Method: Kant's Janus-Faced Conception of the Human Being * 7.1 Environmental Determinism * 7.2 Kant's Dual-Aspect Account of Character * 7.3 Anthropology as a Pragmatic Endeavour * 7.4 Philosophy and the Sciences * 7.5 Conclusion * Coda: Experience Embodied * Bibliography * Index
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