In this essay, I focus on two questions. First, what is Kant's understanding of the sense in which our faculties form a unified system? And, second, what are the implications of this for the metaphysical relationships between the faculties within this system? To consider these questions, I begin with a brief discussion of Longuenesse's groundbreaking work on the teleological unity of the understanding as the faculty for judgment. In doing so, I argue for a generalization of Longuenesse's account along two dimensions. The result is a picture of our faculties as forming a teleological system—unified under the overarching aims of reason as the highest rational faculty. Then I discuss the recent debate between “additive” and “transformative” interpretations of the relationship betweeen sensibility and the understanding, before proposing that we should interpret Kant as endorsing a moderate form of the “transformative” reading, which captures important elements of both the “additive” and the “transformative” account.

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理性能力系统：加法还是变革？

在这篇文章中，我关注两个问题。首先，康德对我们的能力形成统一系统的意义有何理解？其次，这对这个系统内各系之间的形而上学关系有何影响？为了考虑这些问题，我首先简要讨论隆格内斯关于理解的目的论统一性作为判断能力的开创性工作。在这样做的过程中，我主张将 Longuenesse 的解释沿两个维度进行概括。结果是我们的能力形成了一个目的论系统——在理性的总体目标下统一为最高理性能力。然后我讨论了最近关于感性和理解之间关系的“附加”和“变革”解释之间的争论，