Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes

This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant's philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes. Such variations are, in fact, reconstructions made according to Kantian ideas and principles and yet cannot be extracted as such directly from his writings. The book also analyses Kant's philosophy from a new metaphysical angle, based on the original metaphysics of the author, called panenmentalism. It reconstructs some missing links in Kant's philosophy, such as the idea of teleological time, which is vital for Kant's moral theory. Although these variations cannot be found literally in Kant's works, they can be legitimately explicated, developed, and implied from them. Such is the case because these variations are strictly compatible with the details of the texts and the texts as wholes, and because they are systematically integrated. Their coherence supports their validation. The target audiences are graduate and PhD students as well as specialist researchers of Kant's philosophy.

Suggests new variations on Kantian themes Challenges existing problems in Kant's philosophy Offers a panenmentalist perspective on Kant

Auteur

Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of philosophy, the University of Haifa. For many years, his main research was devoted to the study of the history of philosophy, especially of early modern philosophy (Spinoza and Kant). From 1999 till now he introduced and has elaborated on an original modal metaphysics, panenmentalism, which is a special kind of a possibilist realism about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities. Professor Gilead published various books and papers, most of them in English.

Contenu

Preface and Acknowledgement.- Chapter 1. Spatial Time: The Unity of Two Kantian Forms of Intuition.- Chapter 2. Teleological Time: A Variation on a Kantian Theme.- Chapter 3. The Relationship Between the Formal and Transcendental-Metaphysical Logic.- Chapter 4. Restless and Impelling Reason and The Impossibility of Philosophical Satisfaction.- Chapter 5. The Problem of Immediate Evidence According to Kant and Hegel.- Chapter 6. A Kantian Response to Sellars's Criticism of the Myth of the Given.- Chapter 7. The Submission of our Sensuous Nature to the Moral Law in the Second Critique.- Chapter 8. Phenomenal Reality and Relationality as a Conditioned Part of the Thing-in-Itself.- Chapter 9. Kant's Philosophy Under Panenmentalist Observations.- Index.