The Teleology of Reason by Fugate, Courtney D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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The Teleology of Reason Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Preface Table of Contents Abbreviations and the Use of Translations Part I: Preliminary Investigations

Chapter 1 - Motivations

Introduction §. 1. Preliminary Sketch of the Telic Structure of Kant’s Systemof Philosophy

§. 1.1. The Teleology of Theoretical Reason §. 1.2. The Teleology of Pure Practical Reason §. 1.3. The Doctrine of Wisdom as the End of the System of Philosophy §. 1.4. Teleology and the Transcendental Possibility of the Kantian System of Philosophy §. 1.5. The Unity of Reason

§. 2. The Teleological Tradition Before and After Kant

§. 2.1. Teleology in the Philosophies of Kant’s German Predecessors §. 2.2. The Legacy of Kant’s Teleology of Reason in Fichte

§. 3. Current Views on the Role of Teleology in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

§. 3.1. Reactions to the Popular View §. 3.2. Teleology in special studies of Kant’s philosophy

Conclusion

Chapter 2 - Teleology: Rudiments of a Theory

Introduction Teleology: Not Reducible to a Pattern of Behavior Two Examples of this Tendency in Studies of the History of Philosohpy: Bennett and Couturat §. 1. Teleological Inferences: From Pattern to Purpose

§. 1.1. Teleological and Non-Teleological Inferences §. 1.2. Traditional Teleological Arguments for God’s Existence §. 1.3. Concluding Reflections

§. 2. Teleological Explanations: From Purpose to Pattern

§. 2.1. Maupertuis and the Universal Teleology of Nature §. 2.2. Purposes as Laws of Behavior §. 2.3. Skepticism Regarding Explanation §. 2.4. Teleological Explanations: Concluding Reflections

§. 3. The Essential and Inessential Characteristics of Teleological Entities

Part II: The Teleology of Human Knowledge

Introduction to Part II Chapter 3 - The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Experience

Introduction §. 1. Wolff’s Ontological Logic and the “acumen pervidendi universalia in singularibus”

§. 1.1. Wolff’s Logic of Experience §. 1.2. The Wolffian Roots of Kant’s Categories §. 1.3. The Skill of Perceiving the Universal in the Particular §. 1.4. Wolff and Kant on the Possibility of Experience

§. 2. Adolph Friedrich Hoffmann and Christian August Crusius

§. 2.1. The Logic of Experience According to Hoffmann and Crusius §. 2.2. The Possibility of Experience and the Limits of Human Knowledge

§. 3. Anticipating Kant’s Account of Experience Conclusion: The Nature of Kant’s Advance

Chapter 4 - Teleology in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic

Introduction §. 1. The Problem of the “Critique”: How are Synthetic Judgments a priori Possible?

§. 1.1. The Need for Synthetic Judgments a priori and the Structure of Knowledge §. 1.2. Preliminary Outline of the Argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic

§. 2. Space and Time as Grounds of the Formal Perfection of Sensible Objects

§. 2.1. The Objective Formal Perfection of Space §. 2.2. The Transcendental Aesthetic: Comments on the Text

§. 3. The Transcendental Analytic

§. 3.1. The Metaphysical Deduction §. 3.2. The Transcendental Deduction §. 3.3. The Deduction in the B-edition

§. 4. Summary

Chapter 5 - Teleology in the Transcendental Dialectic

Introduction §. 1. The Relation of the Analytic to the Dialectic §. 2. The Ideas of Pure Reason §. 3. The Regulative Principles of Pure Reason §. 4. The Transcendental Death of Physico-Theology Conclusion General Conclusion to Part II

Part III: The Teleology of Freedom

Introduction to Part III Chapter 6 - The Teleology of Freedom: The Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the Analytic

Introduction §. 1. Three Types of Freedom §. 2. Our Three Wills §. 3. Moral Self-Consciousness §. 4. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the GMS §. 5. The To-and-Fro Structure of Moral Self-Consciousness in the KpV Conclusion

Chapter 7 - Kant on Rational Faith as an Expression of Autonomy

Introduction §. 1. Problems and Previous Interpretations

§. 1.1. Beck’s Interpretation §. 1.2. Wood’s Interpretation

§. 1.2.1. A First Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation §. 1.2.2. A Second Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation §. 1.2.3. A Third Difficulty with Wood’s Interpretation §. 1.2.4. A Fourth Difficulty with Woods Interpretation

§. 2. Kant’s Argument

§. 2.1. Virtue as Moral Strength of Character §. 2.2. How Rational Belief in God’s Existence Increases the Moral Incentive §. 2.3. Textual Analysis

§. 2.3.1. The Highest Good in KpV §. 2.3.2. The Highest Good in the KrV §. 2.3.3. The Highest Good in the KU §. 2.3.4. The Highest Good in TP

Summary of the Argument of this Section

§. 3. Practical-Dogmatic Metaphysics

Conclusion

Excursus: The Life of Reason

Introduction §. 1. From Morality to Life: Three Conditions of the Possibility of the Realization of a Moral World §. 2. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life

§. 2.1. Kant’s Constitutive Concept of Life §. 2.2. The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Life §. 2.3. Pure Aesthetic Pleasure as a Feeling of Life: How the Constitutive Concept of Life is Generalized to Include the Feeling of Beauty

Conclusion

Chapter 8 - The Teleological Unity of Reason and Kant’s Idea of Philosophy

Introduction §. 1. The Unity of Reason

§. 1.1. The Unity of Reason: First Reconstruction §. 1.2. Regulative and Constitutive Principles §. 1.3. The Unity of Reason: Second Reconstruction

§. 2. Kant’s Concept of Philosophy

§. 2.1. Philosophy “in sensu scholastico” and “in sensu cosmico” §. 2.2. Unity of Reason and the History of Philosophy

Conclusion Brief Outline of Kant’s Conception of Teleology

Bibliography

I. Translations Consulted II. Primary Sources III. Secondary Sources

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