Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Cognizing, comprehending, and knowing the natural world -- Comprehending the world through intuitive assimilation, conceptual acquisition, and rational appropriation -- Kant on Alexander Baumgarten and logic : the aesthetic, analytical, and synthetic distinctness of what is empirically assimilated -- Georg Friedrich Meier on comprehension and Kant on its relation to cognition and knowledge -- The acquisition of cognition and its transcendental sources -- The role of judgment in validating cognition as meaningful and appropriating knowledge as true -- The modal categories of empirical inquiry and the limits of what can actually be known : replacing prejudices with preliminary and provisional judgments -- Comprehending and contextualizing the human world -- Seeking practical resolutions for irresolvable theoretical antinomies -- Law as legislative and law as legitimating : the role of feeling and judgment in morality -- Aesthetic communicability and the nedial recontextualization of experience -- The modal relevance of reflective judgment for Kant's worldview -- What kant means by life -- Comprehending teleological purposiveness by contextualizing it -- Kant's anthropology and its strategies for moving beyond the inner sense of psychology : reexamining all the senses -- Vital sense, interior sense, and self-assessment -- The distinction between Kant's cosmopolitanism and his cosmical philosophy -- The obstacles to be vvercome in fulfilling the goals of a world-oriented philosophy -- Conclusion : Kant's multifaceted worldview.
Summary:
"Kant's Worldview offers a new interpretation of Immanuel Kant's theory of judgment to clarify how the German philosopher increasingly expands the role of judgment from its logical task to its reflective capacity to evaluate objects and contextualize them in worldly terms"-- Provided by publisher.
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