My aim in this article is to understand the role of imagination and practical judgment in Kant's moral philosophy. After a comparison of Kant with Rousseau, I explore Kant's moral philosophy itself - unlike Hannah Arendt, who finds in the enlarged mentality of the third Critique the ground for the activity of imagination in a shared world. Instead, I place the concept of moral legislation in its background, the reflection on particulars relevant to deliberation, and discuss the mutual relation of reflection and determination. Not only reflection and determination work together; imagination and judgment imply one another essentially, as interpretation of what is relevant, and as a principle of orientation in the choice of the maxim against the backdrop of a uniform and ordered world. The concepts of analogy and symbolic exhibition turn out to be crucial for how reason represents to itself the reality of ideas in the world.

Nella prima parte di questo saggio intendo sollevare il problema dell’immaginazione pratica, per discuterne il ruolo e la presenza aldilà delle prime apparenze testuali che sembrano accreditare la lettura tradizionale secondo cui nella filosofia pratica kantiana l’importanza dell’immaginazione è del tutto circoscritta e secondaria. Nella seconda parte mi concentro sul nesso tra immaginazione e capacità di giudicare; nella terza parte mostro, sulla scorta di alcuni testi, come Kant dopo la Fondazione avesse una chiara e sempre crescente consapevolezza del problema, e proponesse un uso originale del nesso immaginazione-giudizio.

Imagination and judgment in Kant’s practical philosophy

Ferrarin, Alfredo
2008

Abstract

My aim in this article is to understand the role of imagination and practical judgment in Kant's moral philosophy. After a comparison of Kant with Rousseau, I explore Kant's moral philosophy itself - unlike Hannah Arendt, who finds in the enlarged mentality of the third Critique the ground for the activity of imagination in a shared world. Instead, I place the concept of moral legislation in its background, the reflection on particulars relevant to deliberation, and discuss the mutual relation of reflection and determination. Not only reflection and determination work together; imagination and judgment imply one another essentially, as interpretation of what is relevant, and as a principle of orientation in the choice of the maxim against the backdrop of a uniform and ordered world. The concepts of analogy and symbolic exhibition turn out to be crucial for how reason represents to itself the reality of ideas in the world.
2008
Settore M-FIL/01 - Filosofia Teoretica
Settore M-FIL/06 - Storia della Filosofia
Analogy; deliberation; imagination; practical judgment; reflection; symbol
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