Game between Arch-enemies: An Interpretation of the Free and Harmonious Play of Faculties
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Hin-Fung Fung
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to give an interpretation of the free and harmonious play of faculties. The dominant interpretations focus on how the imagination is free from the determination of understanding, but say little about the harmony that can exist between imagination and understanding; thus, in this paper an attempt is made to account for the free and harmonious relationship between these two faculties. Some of Kant’s lectures are reviewed to show the inclinations of the power of imagination and understanding, respectively. As the power of imagination is inclined towards making many representations, understanding is necessary to truncate the multitudes of those representations, so that unity of the representation is achievable. Taking inspiration from the traditional board game of Go, it is possible to draw an interpretation of the play of faculties that takes into consideration both the freedom and the harmony that is present within the play.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- List of Contributors
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- Game between Arch-enemies: An Interpretation of the Free and Harmonious Play of Faculties
- Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime?
- Aesthetic Judgment as Parasitic on Cognition
- Performative versus Orientational Hermeneutics. Gadamer’s Criticism of Kant’s Sensus Communis and its Hermeneutical Rehabilitation by Makkreel
- Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste
- Kant’s Account of the Sublime as Critique
- List of Contributors
- Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2020, 2021 and 2022
