Research Catalog

Title

The fiery test of critique : a reading of Kant's dialectic / Ian Proops.

Author

Proops, Ian

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Description

xi, 486 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Kant conceived of 'critique' as a kind of winnowing exercise, with the aim of separating the wheat of good metaphysics from the chaff of bad. He used a less familiar metaphor to make this point, namely, that of 'the fiery test of critique'-not a medieval ordeal of trial by fire, but rather a metallurgical assay, or cupellation, a procedure in which ore samples are tested for their precious-metal content. When seen in this light, critique has a positive, investigatory side: it seeks not merely to eliminate bad, 'dogmatic' metaphysics but also to uncover what of philosophical value might be contained in traditional speculative metaphysics. In this comprehensive study of the Transcendental Dialectic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Proops argues that Kant uncovered two nuggets of value: the indirect proof of Transcendental Idealism afforded by the resolution of the Antinomies, and a defence of theoretically grounded 'doctrinal beliefs' in a wise and great originator, on the one hand, and in an afterlife, on the other. This examination of critique engages with Kant's views on a number of central problems in philosophy and meta-philosophy: the explanation of the enduring human impulse towards metaphysics, the correct philosophical method, the limits of self-knowledge, the possibility of human freedom, the resolution of metaphysical paradox ('Antinomy'), the justification of faith, the nature of scepticism, and the role of 'as if' reasoning in natural science.

Subject

• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
• Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant, Immanuel)
• Reason
• Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-474) and index.

Contents

Part I. Rational psychology -- Transcendental illusion -- Empirical and rational psychology -- The first paralogism : preliminaries -- The B-edition first paralogism -- The A-edition first paralogism -- The second paralogism -- The third paralogism -- The fourth paralogism -- Part II. Rational cosmology -- The mathematical antinomies presented -- The mathematical antinomies resolved -- The third antinomy presented -- The third antinomy resolved -- The fourth antinomy -- Part III. Rational theology -- The ontological argument -- The cosmological argument -- The first Critique on the physico-theological argument -- The regulative use of the Ideas -- Closing reflections.

Call Number

JFE 21-8636

ISBN

• 0199656045
• 9780199656042

LCCN

2020943336

OCLC

1194871492

Author

Proops, Ian, author.

Title

The fiery test of critique : a reading of Kant's dialectic / Ian Proops.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-474) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8636