Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
- 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason
- 3 Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
- 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument
- 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason
- 6 On the Faktum of Reason
- 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason
- 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III
- 9 The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kant's Philosophy
- 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better
- 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant's Juridical Semantics
- 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism
- 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations
- 14 A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy
- 15 The Meaning of the Term Gemüt in Kant
- 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics
- 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmässigkeit in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
- 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics
- 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
- 20 Symbolization in Kant's Critical Philosophy
- Bibliography of Works in German and English
- List of Contributors
- Index
3 - Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
- 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason
- 3 Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
- 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument
- 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason
- 6 On the Faktum of Reason
- 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason
- 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III
- 9 The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kant's Philosophy
- 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better
- 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant's Juridical Semantics
- 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism
- 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations
- 14 A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy
- 15 The Meaning of the Term Gemüt in Kant
- 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics
- 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmässigkeit in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
- 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics
- 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
- 20 Symbolization in Kant's Critical Philosophy
- Bibliography of Works in German and English
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
Kant's Intuitions as a Variant of Contemporay De Re Thought
This text aims to explore the exegetical hypothesis that the Kantian conception of empirical intuition can be interpreted as a variant—obviously a variant avant la lettre—of the contemporary theory of de re thoughts.
An elementary and minimal presentation of this theory will suffice for this purpose: de re thoughts are object-dependent thoughts, thoughts whose individuation derives not from conceptual conditions to be satisfied by the properties of their objects, but rather from the immediate relations of the subject of these thoughts to the objects of which they are thoughts. This is also to say that these thoughts are intrinsic and constitutively relational, perception being the paradigmatic illustration of them. This idea is clearly presented by Kent Bach:
When we perceive something, we can think about it in a fundamentally different way than if we thought of it merely by description. To think of something by description is just to think of whatever happens to have the properties expressed by the description. But to perceive something is to be in a real relation to it, to be in a position to think of that object in particular, no matter what its properties. While attending to it, somehow … we can think of it as “that,” not merely, under some individual concept, as “the F.” Our thoughts about it are not DESCRIPTIVE but DE RE. Thoughts about objects of perception make up the basic … kind of de re thought.
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- Kant in Brazil , pp. 56 - 80Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012