Ian Proops

The Fiery Test of Critique (eBook, ePUB)

A Reading of Kant's Dialectic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Kant conceived of 'critique' as a kind of winnowing exercise, with the aim of separating the wheat of good metaphysics from the chaff of bad. He used a less familiar metaphor to make this point, namely, that of 'the fiery test of critique'-not a medieval ordeal of trial by fire, but rather a metallurgical assay, or cupellation, a procedure in which ore samples are tested for their precious-metal content. When seen in this light, critique has a positive, investigatory side: it seeks not merely to eliminate bad, 'dogmatic' metaphysics but also to uncover what of philosophical value might be contained in traditional speculative metaphysics. In this comprehensive study of the Transcendental Dialectic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Proops argues that Kant uncovered two nuggets of value: the indirect proof of Transcendental Idealism afforded by the resolution of the Antinomies, and a defence of theoretically grounded 'doctrinal beliefs' in a wise and great originator, on the one hand, and in an afterlife, on the other. This examination of critique engages with Kant's views on a number of central problems in philosophy and meta-philosophy: the explanation of the enduring human impulse towards metaphysics, the correct philosophical method, the limits of self-knowledge, the possibility of human freedom, the resolution of metaphysical paradox ('Antinomy'), the justification of faith, the nature of scepticism, and the role of 'as if' reasoning in natural science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192639394
• Artikelnr.: 61477611

Autorenporträt

Ian Proops is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He works on Kant and on the history of analytic philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Rational Psychology
1: Transcendental Illusion
2: Empirical and Rational Psychology
3: The Paralogisms--Preliminaries
4: The First Paralogism in B
5: The First Paralogism in A
6: The Second Paralogism
7: The Third Paralogism
8: The Fourth Paralogism
Part II: Rational Cosmology
9: The Mathematical Antinomies Presented
10: The Mathematical Antinomies Resolved
11: The Third Antinomy Presented
12: The Third Antinomy Resolved
13: The Fourth Antinomy
Part III: Rational Theology
14: The Ontological Argument
15: The Cosmological Argument
16: The Physico-Theological Argument
17: The Regulative Use of the Ideas
18: Closing Reflections