Logica naturalis, Healthy Understanding and the Reflecting Power of Judgment in Kant’s Philosophy
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Manuel Sánchez Rodríguez
Abstract
The aim of this article is to explore the origin of the difficulty of founding the reflecting power of judgment as Kant outlines it in the Preface of the third Critique. Although a foundation for this faculty was only established in 1790, we must interpret it as a critical solution to an old problem, which Kant had already recognized around 1770. Through his comprehension of the meaning of healthy understanding and native wit he already confirms the impossibility of determining the correctness of our judging activity from the use of rules. This approach of the problem must be understood in the context of the controversy about the concept ‘logica naturalis’ in the Leibniz-Wolffian aesthetics and logic. In close conjunction with this tradition, Kant already tries to offer an elucidation of the question of judging through the aesthetics.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Titelseiten
- The completeness of Kant’s metaphysical exposition of space
- Difficulty Still Awaits: Kant, Spinoza, and the Threat of Theological Determinism
- Logica naturalis, Healthy Understanding and the Reflecting Power of Judgment in Kant’s Philosophy
- Beauty, Disinterested Pleasure, and Universal Communicability: Kant’s Response to Burke
- Remarque philologique sur le terme «Classe» dans le § 11 de la Critique de la raison pure
- Das Manuskript von Kants Brief an Kiesewetter vom 13. Oktober 1797
- „Mein Leben gleicht einem Roman …“: Kants Schüler Friedrich August Hahnrieder und seine Geschichte
- Buchbesprechungen
- Mitgliederversammlung der Kant-Gesellschaft
- Mainzer Kant-Symposium 2012
- 10.1515/kant-2012-0019
