Volume 17, No. 2, Fall 2022
FORTHCOMING
Schizophrenia and the Conflict of Reason
Phenomenology of the Labyrinth and its Significance for Understanding the Manneristic Art and the Schizophrenic World
Otto Doerr-Zegers |
University of Chile and Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
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The Phenomenology of Delusions
Laura Matthews |
University of Pittsburgh
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For the Love of Metaphysics
Karin Nisenbaum |
Syracuse University
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Modernity and the Eros of Reason
Richard Eldridge |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Karen Nisenbaum develops a powerful and plausible picture of the role of practical reason in envisioning and achieving free and meaningful life in modernity, as Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Salomon Maimon, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, F. W. J. Schelling, and Franz Rosenzweig understood that role. This leads her to the important thought that a (quasi-) existentialist commitment to a form of religious-ethical life might satisfy the eros of practical reason for meaning. While endorsing many elements of her reading, I go on to raise questions about alternative ways of understanding Kant, about whether one needs and should strive to articulate a single first principle of practical reason, and about whether practical reason might be better understood as more pluralized, historically developing, and institutionally situated and shaped than Nisenbaum suggests.
Keywords: Kant, Immanuel; Rosenzweig, Franz; Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich; Maimon, Salomon; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph; eros; nihilism; practical reason.
Nisenbaum's Fichtean Reading of Kant's Fact of Reason
Alexandra Newton |
University of California, Riverside
In For the Love of Metaphysics, Karin Nisenbaum argues that a significant strand of postKantian philosophy aims to radicalize Kant's insight into the primacy of practical reason over theoretical reason. However, philosophers of this period do not necessarily share Kant's understanding of what it is for reason to be practical. In my comments, I will highlight three difficulties with Nisenbaum's post-Kantian interpretation of Kant's fact of reason, which seem to indicate a departure from Kant's original understanding of practical reason. The first concerns the moral law as the self-consciousness of practical reason, the second human beings' existence as moral persons, and the third the ungroundedness of the ground of practical reason..
Keywords: Fichte, Johann Gottlieb; Kant, Immanuel; self-consciousness; fact of reason; freedom; personhood; practical reason.
Nisenbaum on Kant and Maimon, and the Human Intellect
Katharina T. Kraus |
Johns Hopkins University
In her book For the Love of Metaphysics, Karin Nisenbaum offers an innovative reading of Salomon Maimon's transcendental philosophy, according to which Maimon not only presents a valid critique of Immanuel Kant's dualism between the human and divine orders of intelligibility, but also offers a way to overcome the shortcomings of Kant's position through a rereading of Kant's Transcendental Deduction. I argue that Nisenbaum's Maimonian rereading is closer to Kant's original thought than she admits. By reassessing the regulative use of ideas of reason in Kant's Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic, I distinguish between a semantic function of ideas in the formation of the empirical concepts for human cognition and an epistemic function that projects the ultimate goal of human cognition as it would be grasped by a divine intellect..
Keywords: Kant, Immanuel; Maimon, Salomon; human intellect; divine intellect; ideas of reason; empirical concept formation; empirical truth; regulative use of ideas.
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