Reflective Judgment's Potentials in the Formation of Juridical Nature in Kant

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of philosophy of art, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

2 PhD in philosophy of art, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

Abstract

Perhaps one of the most pivotal ideas of Kant which connects all of the periods of his continuous intellectual work is the idea of the nature as the whole. According to Kant the nature as the whole is equivalent to totality and universality. This is the rule of the fundamental idea: the particulars finally must be under the general in order to be explicable. But it is interesting to note that this general rule which remains unchanged in Kant’s three periods of intellectual work has a special meaning in each period. So we seek to answer the question of how Kant begins with the nature as the objective and then reaches the nature as the ideal of the pure reason and consider it as the necessary totality for the power of judgment and from there reaches the nature as something that has legal requirements. But such a transformation into the legal and historical nature is possible only if we pay attention to the power of reflective judgments which are contained of aesthetic and teleological judgments. Because it is the power of reflective judgment that provides Kant with the necessary tools to view the nature as a totality whose purpose is the realization of rights. In this sense the nature is something that offers hope to the human race..

Keywords

Main Subjects

References

-       Allison, Henry (2001) Kant’s Theory Taste, Cambridge University Press.
-       Arendt, Hannah (1992) Kant’s Political Philosophy, University of Chicago Press.
-       Coppleston, Fredrick (1997) History of Philosophy, Vol. 5, trans. Esmaeel Saadat & Manoochehr Bozorgmehr, Tehran: Sorosh. (in Persian)
-       Ferrarin, lfredo (2015) The Power of Pure Reason, The University of Chicago Press.
-       Foucault, Paul-Michel (2015) the Birth of Biopolitic, trans. Reza Najafzadeh, Tehran: Ney. (in Persian)
-       Goldmann, Lucien (2006) Kant and Contemporary Philosophy, trans. Parviz Babaei, Tehran: Agahgostar. (in persian)
-       Guyer, Paul (1987) Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press.
-       Guyer, Paul (2005) Kant’s System of Nature and Freedom, New York: Oxford University Press Inc.
-       Guyer, Paul (2006) Kant, Abingdon: Routledge 2park Squer Milton Park.
-       Guyer, Paul (2008) Knowledge, Reason and Taste, Princeton University Press.
-       Hanna, Robert (2016) Kant's Shorter Writings, Cambridge Scholars.
-       Hume (2007) A Treatise of Human Nature, Vol. 1, edit. David Fate Norton, Mary Norton, Clarendon.
-       Jaspers, Karl (1993) Kant, trans. Abdolhossein Naghibzade, Tehran: Tahoory publication. (in persian)
-       Kant (1894) Inaugural Dissertation of 1770, trans. William J. Eckoff.
-       Kant (1970) Political Writings, Cambridge University Press.
-       Kant (1987) Critique of Judgment, Hackett Publishing Company.
-       Kant (1998) Critique of Pure Reason, the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.
-       Kant, imanoel (1999) Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim, trans. Manochehr Saneei Darehbidi, Tehran: Naghsh & Negar. (in persian)
-       Kant, Imanuel (1999) the Critique of Judgment, trans. Abdolkarim Rashidian, Tehran: Ney. (in persian)
-       Kant, Imanuel (2015) the Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Behroz Nazari, Tehran: Quqnoos. (in persian)
-       Leibniz, Gottfried (1993) Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays, trans. Abdolkarim Rashidian, Amouzesh Enghelab Esllami Publication. (in persian)
-       Thorpe, Lucas (2015) the Kant Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Send comment about this article
CAPTCHA Image

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics