This course will engage in an in-depth study of Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy. Our focus will be the Critique of Pure Reason (the first critique) and the Critique of Judgement (the third critique). These volumes stand as two of the most influential works in the history of Western philosophy. Through a close reading of the first critique, we will examine issues such as (i) the problems that have caused metaphysics and the Age of Enlightenment to falter; (ii) Kant’s Copernican revolution as a solution to these problems; (iii) his transcendental idealism; (iv) the relation between intuitions and concepts; (v) Kant’s position on free will and the soul; and (vi) how metaphysics needs to be practiced going forward. Meanwhile, in turning to the third critique, we will investigate how Kant’s study of aesthetic judgements about beauty and sublimity, and of teleological judgements about the purposiveness of nature, relate to his epistemology and to what Kant understood as the ultimate purpose of his critical philosophy: changing the living world into a moral world. By doing so, we will develop a deeper understanding of Kant’s philosophy and its continuing importance in our everyday lives. Lectures: Three hours a week. 10-01-2022-06-04-2022 Lecture Monday, Wednesday 03:00PM - 04:15PM, Room to be Announced
- 教師: Schaefer Max