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Kant on beauty and biology : an interpretation of the Critique of judgment /
Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book is the first to interpret the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Modern European philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book is the first to interpret the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that, on Kant's view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding organic life: an ability to anticipate a whole that we do not completely understand according to preconceived categories. This ability is necessary, moreover, for human beings to gain knowledge of nature in its empirical character as it is, not as we might assume it to be. Her wide-ranging and original study will be valuable for readers in all areas of Kant's philosophy. Book jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 409 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-395) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511335303 051133530X 0511333382 9780511333385 0511334729 9780511334726 9780511487323 0511487320 9780511334061 0511334060 |