Abstract The essay begins with an examination of Kant's account of wit in the Anthropologie. It argues that Kant's unexpected inclusion of wit in the higher faculty of cognition raises fundamental questions about the subject matter of Kantian anthropology as well as its link to critical philosophy. The essay situates Kant's subsequent exclusion of wit from the understanding proper within the context of the shift from critical philosophy's focus on the rational universal subject to anthropology, with its depiction of man as an actor in and for the world. It is within this world that is comprised, first and foremost, of other men, men who differ greatly in the use of their mental capacities, that communication emerges as a necessity. Orderly conversation becomes, for Kant, the primary means for sorting subjective thought into objectivity reality. While Kant acknowledges that wit is both the driver of conversation as well as the very quality of being sociable, he also deems it a standing threat to conversation and the objectivity that is given with it.

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康德人类学中的智慧问题 in Pragmatischer Hinsicht

摘要 本文首先考察康德在《人类学》中对机智的描述。它认为康德在高级认知能力中出人意料的机智引发了关于康德人类学主题及其与批判哲学的联系的基本问题。这篇文章将康德随后将智慧排除在正确理解之外，是在批判哲学从关注理性普遍主题转向人类学的背景下，将人描述为世界中和世界上的行动者。正是在这个首先由其他人组成的世界中，这些人在使用他们的智力方面有很大差异，交流成为一种必要。对康德来说，有秩序的谈话变成了 将主观思想分类为客观现实的主要手段。虽然康德承认机智既是谈话的驱动因素，也是善于交际的品质，但他也认为机智对谈话和随之而来的客观性构成长期威胁。