The self-conscious, thinking subject : a Kantian contribution to reestablishing reason in a post-truth age / Robert Abele.
2021
JA71 .A24 2021
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The self-conscious, thinking subject : a Kantian contribution to reestablishing reason in a post-truth age / Robert Abele.
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9783030795573 (electronic bk.)
3030795578 (electronic bk.)
9783030795566
303079556X
3030795578 (electronic bk.)
9783030795566
303079556X
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-79557-3 doi
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JA71 .A24 2021
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320.101
Summary
This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental dimension to them. Judgments are related to perception in that both are syntheses, defined as the unity of representations according to a rule/form. Perceptual syntheses are simultaneously pre-linguistic and proto-rational, and the understanding (Kants Verstand) makes these syntheses conceptually and thus self-consciously explicit. Abele concludes with a transcendental critique of postmodernism and what its deflationary view of ontological categoriessuch as the unified and reasoning subjecthas done to political thinking. He presents an alternative that calls for a return to normativity and a recognition of reason, objectivity, and the universality of principles. Robert Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College, USA. He is the author of A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (2012).
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Table of Contents
1. The Primacy of Judgment
2. Judgment
3: Synthesis: The Common Form of Judgment and Perception
4. Synthesis and the Forms of Judgment in Perception
5. The Unity of Cognition in the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
6. The Drawbacks of Empirical Metaphoric Reductionism
7. The Politics of Negative Ontology: Postmodernism.
2. Judgment
3: Synthesis: The Common Form of Judgment and Perception
4. Synthesis and the Forms of Judgment in Perception
5. The Unity of Cognition in the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
6. The Drawbacks of Empirical Metaphoric Reductionism
7. The Politics of Negative Ontology: Postmodernism.