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Excerpt from The Formal and Material Elements of Kant's Ethics P the matter of desire; it is the sense-given, hence is par ticular, empirical and merely contingent. For Form, on the other hand, we may find two sources, Reason and the Understanding, used to denote respectively the faculty which deals with Ideas not based on intuition, but produced from its own spontaneity, and that which has no conceptions except those derived from sensible intuition. When he reached the period of his ethical writings, Kant had finished his investigation of the limits of the Understand ing, and Reason became of first importance as a field of re search. As a result, the Understanding falls into the back ground, and occupies ewhat equivocal position. As a faculty of abstraction, ongs to the formal world and is concerned with the form of knowledge.) As opposed to the intelligible intuitionless world in which Reason dwells by its purely spontaneous nature, Understanding ranks with the sensible world of intuitions. (the division of intelligible and sensible worlds is the one most prominently before Kant's mind in his Eth Nevertheless his phraseology is not so constant as not ow of a frequent use of the division be tween Sensibility and Understanding. Thus comes to have two distinct references. It may I) merely the universal to be arrived at by abstraction from the particulars given in intuition; (2) the rational, as distinct from the sensible and intelligible, and not derived from intuition. In the former sense, Kant is aconceptualist; though there is an intimation, in his conception of the Categories, that if the universal does not lie in the mind before the particular is presented in intuition, at least the mind is ready beforenand for such presentation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Philosophy |
Author |
: William Morrow Washington |
Publisher |
: Forgotten Books |
Release |
: 2018-02-03 |
File |
: 70 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0484900064 |