Critical Philosophy: Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason Pubblico
McQuillan, Colin (2010)
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Critical Philosophy:
Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
By
Colin McQuillan
Critical Philosophy: Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure
Reason examines the concept of "critique," as it is employed by
Immanuel Kant in the Critique
of Pure Reason (1781/1787). While many readers assume that Kant
intended the Critique of Pure Reason to
establish the limits of reason, my dissertation shows that the work
attempts to determine the possibility
of a science of metaphysics through a critique of the faculty of
human reason. The critical approach to
metaphysics that Kant develops in the Critique of Pure Reason is
novel, because critique had been a
primarily philological concept in the eighteenth century, when it
was associated with the authentication
of ancient texts and the determination of their sources. Kant
appropriated the term in the early 1770's,
applying it to a problem with which he had been concerned since the
time of his earliest, "pre-critical"
works. This is the problem of the proper method of metaphysics. The
discussions of a critique of pure
reason that are to be found in Kant's notes, lectures, and
correspondence, as well as the Critique of Pure
Reason itself, afford us a unique insight into the development of
Kant's "critical" philosophy, when we
realize that they are the direct result of Kant's application of
the concept of critique to problem of the
proper method of metaphysics. By examining these texts, my
dissertation helps scholars to understand
the reasons why Kant thought the possibility of a science of
metaphysics depended upon the
determination and authentication of the sources of metaphysics in
the faculties of human reason. It
provides a historical and contextual account of the development of
Kant's critical philosophy which is
unique in the scholarly literature.
Critical Philosophy:
Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
By
Colin McQuillan
B.A. Loyola University Chicago, 2002
M.A. Boston College, 2004
Advisor: Dr. Rudolf Makkreel
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the
James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies of Emory University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy in Philosophy
2009
Table of Contents
CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY:
IMMANUEL KANT AND THE "CRITIQUE" OF PURE REASON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
iii
INTRODUCTION
v
CHAPTER 1: THE GENUINE AGE OF CRITICISM
1.1: ANALYSIS AND REFLECTION UPON LIMITS
3
1.2: CRITIQUE IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
15
1.3: THE GENUINE AGE OF CRITICISM AND THE CRITIQUE
36
OF PURE REASON
CHAPTER 2: SO FAR NO METAPHYSICS HAS EVER BEEN WRITTEN
2.1: THE DISTINCTNESS OF METAPHYSICS
51
2.2: THE PROPER METHOD OF METAPHYSICS
68
2.3: ERRONEOUS JUDGMENTS AND MISTAKEN PROCEDURES
79
2.4: IN PURE PHILOSOPHY, METHOD PRECEDES ALL SCIENCE
101
CHAPTER 3: THE KEY TO THE WHOLE SECRET OF METAPHYSICS
3.1: THE FIRST TITLE OF THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
112
3.2: FROM THE FORM AND PRINCIPLES OF THE SENSIBLE AND THE
118
INTELLIGIBLE WORLD TO THE BOUNDS OF SENSIBILITY AND
REASON
3.3: FROM THE GROUND OF THE RELATION BETWEEN
128
REPRESENTATIONS AND OBJECTS TO THE CRITIQUE
OF PURE REASON
- 1 Distribution Agreement
- 2 Approval Sheet
- 3 Abstract Title Page
- 4 Abstract
- 5 Title Page
- 6 Table of Contents
- 7 Acknowledgments
- Dissertation Chapter 1 Final 03.03.2010
- Dissertation Chapter 2 Final 03.03.2010
- Dissertation Chapter 3 Final 03.03.2010
- Dissertation Chapter 4 Final 03.03.2010
- Dissertation Chapter 5 Final 03.03.2010
- Dissertation Bibliography Final 03.03.2010
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