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- Title
The Structure of the Theoretical Power of Judgment. Kant and the Value of Our Empirical Cognitions.
- Authors
Tréémoulet, Benjamin
- Abstract
This paper argues that the cognitive status and cognitive value of thoughts should be clarified through a description of the mechanics of the theoretical power of judgment. Three pairs of concepts essentially constitute its tools: 1. determinative and reflective judgments; 2. constitutive and regulative principles; and 3. transcendental and empirical applications. Against the general approach to dealing with these concepts, i.e., against the tendency to consider them as synonymous or as forming a parallel structure, this article sharpens the distinctions between these three pairs of concepts. For that reason the methodological hypothesis according to which there is no inner relation between these respective pairs of concepts will be put to the test. The hypothesis says that these concepts should be prima facie combinable: e. g., one should be able to say what a judgment that is simultaneously transcendental, regulative and determining would be like, or why such a combination is impossible. Combining the three concept-pairs creates eight possibilities that are presented systematically in the table at the end of the article. The discussion shows the precise status of each kind of law of nature and their relationships to empirical experience are described in greater detail.
- Subjects
MORAL judgment; FINITE, The; NATURAL law; REFLECTIONS; TRANSCENDENTALISM in literature; PRIMA facie evidence
- Publication
Kant-Studien, 2011, Vol 102, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
0022-8877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/KANT.2011.003