The Harmony of the Faculties
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Fred L Rush
Abstract
The primary task confronting an examination of the claimed connection between Kant's general theory of cognition and his account of aesthetic judgment requires clarifying perhaps the most obscure component of that account, the doctrine of the harmony of the faculties. Kant's presentation of this doctrine makes it notoriously difficult to penetrate. Much of what Kant says about the harmony of the faculties – perhaps the very phrase “the harmony of the faculties” – is rather imprecise and metaphorical. Yet, the importance of a correct understanding of the harmony of the faculties to assessing both the merits of Kant's aesthetic theory and his claims for the epistemological significance of reflection is difficult to overstate, for it is precisely this state of harmony that ultimately grounds the validity of judgments of taste and does so in virtue of being a state in which the most general prerequisites to conceptual judgment are present.
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- Zum Tode von Hans Wagner am 1. Februar 2000
- “The Transition from Sensibility to Reason In Regressu”: Indeterminism in Kant's Reflexionen
- Eine Notiz zu den Argumentationsstrukturen in der „Widerlegung des Idealismus”
- Kants Kritik am Eudämonismus und die Platonische Ethik
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- Une correction à apporter au texte d'une définition du beau dans la Critique de la faculté de juger
- Pavel Florenskij und Kant – eine wichtige Seite der russischen Kant-Rezeption
- Tagungsbericht: 2. Gideon Spicker-Symposion
- Buchbesprechungen
Articles in the same Issue
- Zum Tode von Hans Wagner am 1. Februar 2000
- “The Transition from Sensibility to Reason In Regressu”: Indeterminism in Kant's Reflexionen
- Eine Notiz zu den Argumentationsstrukturen in der „Widerlegung des Idealismus”
- Kants Kritik am Eudämonismus und die Platonische Ethik
- The Harmony of the Faculties
- Kant's Transcendental Deduction of Political Authority
- Une correction à apporter au texte d'une définition du beau dans la Critique de la faculté de juger
- Pavel Florenskij und Kant – eine wichtige Seite der russischen Kant-Rezeption
- Tagungsbericht: 2. Gideon Spicker-Symposion
- Buchbesprechungen
