Article Titelseiten was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Kant’s Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (1766) did not provide the sole perspective through which Emanuel Swedenborg’s work was known in Germany in the eighteenth century. Before Kant, another German philosopher was interested in Swedenborg from a completely different perspective: Christian Wolff. On the one hand, this paper analyzes the meaning of Wolff’s anonymous reviews of Swedenborg’s early writings published

In this paper, I will reconstruct Kant’s theory of illusion from the perspective of his transcendental philosophy. I argue that it is Kant’s theory of dialectic as the “logic of illusion” that grounds both theoretical and practical error and that traces them back to a common root: the operation of rationalizing by theoretical and practical reason. I analyze different kinds of theoretical and practical

The first section of Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals contains a teleological argument, the aim of which is to show that the natural purpose of human reason lies not in securing happiness but in morality. While the teleological argument is widely considered to be digressive and unconvincing in the secondary literature, in this article I attempt to show that the argument is neither digressive

This paper argues that the political adage “ Be ye prudent as serpents and guileless as doves ” involves three different types of relation between prudence and morality, namely: unification ( Vereinigung ), subordination ( Unterordnung ), and association ( Beigesellung ). I maintain that these relations are set up according to the same principle that determines the relationship between mechanical and

Kant makes and elaborates upon a distinction between active citizenship and passive citizenship. Active citizens enjoy the right to vote and rights of political participation generally. Passive citizens do not, though they still enjoy the protection of the law as citizens. Kant’s examples have left commentators puzzling over how these distinctions follow from his stated rationale or justification for

Recently (2019/20), a new autograph written by Immanuel Kant in October 1786 was found and identified. It is a quotation from Horace’s Epistles I. 1, 60 dedicated to Johann Friedrich Lange (1760–1826), a preacher and former student of Kant’s at the Albertina University: “Let this be a man’s brazen wall (rule of life), to be conscious of no ill, to turn pale with no guilt.” Kant quoted the passage several

Article Neuaufgefundene Exemplare des Erstdrucks der Nova dilucidatio was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Karl Leonhard Reinhold: Gesammelte Schriften. Kommentierte Ausgabe. Bd. 5/2: Auswahl vermischter Schriften. Zweyter Theil. Hrsg. von Martin Bondeli und Silvan Imhof. Basel: Schwabe, 2017. C + 289 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7965-3494-2. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Handbuch Christian Wolff. Hrsg. von Robert Theis und Alexander Aichele. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2018. X, 519 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-658-14736-5. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Burkhard Nonnenmacher: Vernunft und Glaube bei Kant. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. 425 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-16-155716-3. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Article Hendrik Klinge: Die moralische Stufenleiter. Kant über Teufel, Menschen, Engel und Gott. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2018. 266 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-11-057565-1. was published on March 1, 2021 in the journal Kant-Studien (volume 112, issue 1).

Abstract In Schillerʼs On Grace and Dignity of 1794, his critique of the alleged ‘rigorism’ of Kantian ethics is particularly harsh: Kant has developed an ethic for “servants” that suppresses human nature for fear of it and does not reconcile it. The essay attempts to show that this critique is based on Schillerʼs double misunderstanding: a misunderstanding of the Kantian conception and a misunderstanding

Abstract In the Briefe über die Ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen, the focus of this article, Schiller’s ostensible aim – to complete Kant’s aesthetic theory – is progressively abandoned. The article examines the reasons for this abandonment. On the one hand, Schiller’s original purpose was overtaken by events in France. Schiller found that he could no longer sustain confidence in reason’s capacity

Abstract The paper examines Schiller’s argument concerning the subjective experience of adopting a morality based on Kantian principles. On Schiller’s view, such experience must be marked by a continuous struggle to suppress nature, because the moral law is a purely rational and categorically commanding law that addresses beings who are natural as well as rational. Essential for Schiller’s conclusion

Abstract In my contribution, I discuss the important role of moral anthropological questions in the development of Schiller’s theoretical thought. I underline the fact that Schiller’s philosophical questions in Jena are much closer to those he confronted in Stuttgart – much closer than is considered to be the case in contemporary Schiller scholarship. I show how this continuity becomes evident when

Abstract In his treatment of a Kantian concept of moral freedom, Schiller argues for two kinds of freedom: freedom in the spirit of autonomous practical reason and freedom in which man is considered a mixed (sensual and rational) being. It is apparent that Schiller is on a Reinholdian path. He follows Reinhold’s theory of free will in conceiving of moral freedom primarily as the capacity to decide

Abstract The concept of human freedom developed by Schelling in the Freiheitsschrift (1809) prompted him to explore a new concept of time in his Weltalter project. Schelling proposes the ‘generic subjectivity of time’: Time must be understood not as a precondition of dynamism, but rather as an effect of dynamic agency. The articulation of time into its moments, ‘presence’, ‘past’, and ‘future’, is

Abstract The relation between Kant’s conception of modalities in the Postulates of Empirical Thought and Hegel’s conception in the Logic of Essence has not been addressed in the current scholarship. I argue that there is in fact a close connection that becomes visible if the desideratum which is implied by Kant’s conceptions is understood. Thus, after an analysis of the Kantian modal postulates, the

Abstract This study reflects upon the fundamental justification of the radicality of Kant’s affirmation according to which religion is “a matter of reason alone”. To this end, this paper bores in two directions: In a first direction, the premises as well as the context of the Critique of Practical Reason’s thesis, according to which the moral law leads to religion, are reconstructed. The question that

Abstract As is well known, § 6 of Kant’s Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right contains five paragraphs that do not belong there. The article shows that their correct location is at the end of § 16. This sheds some new light on Kant’s theory of property and its significance for Kant’s doctrine of cosmopolitan right.

Abstract Kant speaks repeatedly about the relations between ends or aims and scientific research, but the topic has mostly been ignored. What is the role of ends, especially (though not exclusively) practical ones, in his views on science? I will show that while Kant leaves ample space for recognizing a function of ends both in the definition and the pursuit of inquiry, and in the further practical

Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) und Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) stehen, so arbeitet Bienenstock in ihrer breit angelegten Studie heraus, in einem direkten und indirekten Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnis, das sich gerade auch durch die Gegensätzlichkeit ihres philosophischen Standpunkts und Denkens bestätige. Der Lehrer Cohen, zugehörig zur Generation der preußischen Juden, die im Kaiserreich eine bürgerliche Karriere

Die Bibliothek Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels I, Abteilungen I–III. In: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke (GW) 31,1. Supplement in zwei Teilbänden (Teilband I). Hrsg. von Manuela Koeppe. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2017. VI, 971 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7873-2900-7. Die Bibliothek Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels II, Abteilungen IV–IX, Anhang. In: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke

Abstract Metaphysical readings of Kant’s theoretical philosophy in the Critical period are ascendant. But their possibility assumes the possibility of existence- and real-possibility-judgments about things in themselves. I argue that Kant denies the latter possibility, so metaphysical readings have dubious prospects. First, I show that Kant takes existence- and real-possibility-judgments, as necessarily

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Abstract Kant’s early work The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures is typically considered a narrow, technical work still embedded in the tradition of Wolffian logic. I argue instead that it needs to be considered in light of Kant’s developing theory of cognition and his corresponding criticism of the Wolffian single faculty theory. Whereas the mature Kant criticizes the rationalists for

Bekanntlich hat sich Kant zeit seines Lebens intensiv mit Fragen der Anthropologie auseinandergesetzt. Dennoch wurde die Erörterung der Relevanz, die dieser Auseinandersetzung und deren Ergebnisse zukommt, in der Zeit des Neukantianismus, aber auch nach der Entstehung einer institutionalisierten KantForschung eindeutig vernachlässigt. Freilich gab es auch markante Ausnahmen, wie etwa der 1966 in der

Abstract Recent literature on Kant’s Opus postumum has typically focused on two parts of the drafts: the ether proofs and the Selbstsetzungslehre. Eckart Förster’s interpretation is representative of this tendency and, moreover, presents the Selbstsetzungslehre as the culmination of Kant’s late project. By contrast, I argue that the drafts of fascicles X/XI, written in between the ether proofs and

Gegen Ende des ersten Kapitels von Kant’s Modal Metaphysics schreibt Nicholas Stang: „Some readers may feel that they began reading a book on eighteenth-century metaphysics and are now reading a book on contemporary analytic philosophy“ (35). In der Tat wird sich manche/r Kantforscher/in bei der Lektüre fragen, inwiefern die Symbolik der mathematischen Modallogik und die Terminologie der analytischen

Abstract This paper is a novel attempt at reconstructing Kant’s account of self-consciousness in the first Critique by making evident its gradual expository progression, and at identifying the epistemic status of the two modes of self-consciousness: pure and empirical. I trace the gradual exposition of theoretical self-consciousness across three crucial parts of the book: the Transcendental Deduction

Abstract The theory of space-time developed in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and his (1786) Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is connected to Leonhard Euler’s proof of invariance under Galilean transformations in the “On Motion in General” of the latter’s 1736 Analytical Mechanics. It is argued that Kant, by using the Principle of Relativity that is the output of Euler’s proof as an input

Abstract This article concerns the unsolved riddle of the continuum of the extension of time and space. It becomes solvable if one takes the two different relationships that can exist between extension and point as a basis: the primary relationship in the synthetic continuum and the secondary relationship in the analytical continuum. Time and space can then be deduced from the primary relationship

Abstract When interpreters orient Kant’s philosophy of time in relation to McTaggart’s distinction among different ways of characterizing a temporal order, they claim that he is best described as endorsing an A series position according to which there is a metaphysically privileged present that determines the past and the future. Whether Kant might also be understood as a proponent of the B series

Abstract I defend what I take to be a genuinely Kantian view on temporal extension: time is not an object but a human horizon of concrete particulars. As such, time depends on the existence of embodied human subjects. It does not, however, depend on those subjects determined as spatial objects. Starting with a realist notion of “apperception” as applied to indexical space (1), I proceed with the need

Abstract Kant’s emphasis on the immorality of lying even to a murderer at the door who is asking about a victim hidden inside has drawn criticism ever since. The example originally given by Constant has been read as the thread of morality by totalitarian ruthlessness. In order to defend the importance of Kant’s moral philosophy, many critics have tried to update his position by taking into account

Abstract Wolff advocates the mathematical method, which consists in chains of syllogisms that proceed from axioms and definitions to theorems, for achieving scientific certainty in branches of philosophy like ontology and physics. By contrast, in ‘The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Dogmatic Use’ Kant significantly limits the efficacy of this method in philosophy. In this paper I investigate an under-examined

Abstract In this paper, I focus on Kant’s doctrine of figurative synthesis. Figurative synthesis is the result of the activity of productive transcendental imagination. This is the chief problem of the so-called “second proof step” in Kant’s deduction of the categories according to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. The pure original synthetic apperception forms in the inner and outer

Abstract The empiricist needs to explain the origin, in perception, of the idea of time. Kant believed the only answer was a kind of idealism about time. This essay examines Hume’s extensionalism as a possible answer to Kant. Extensionalism allegedly accounts for the experience of time via the manner of presentation of experiences, rather than the content of experience.

Abstract In this essay, I examine the motive of inner truthfulness in the moral philosophy of Kant, which came to the fore in his work in the 1790s. Truthfulness and sincerity are interpreted as the roots of all morality. In the first chapter, I present two interpretations of inner honesty from two different perspectives: in relation to a duty to oneself and to the issue of conscience. The second chapter

Abstract I discuss the problem that Kant’s ethics seems to be incapable of capturing our strong intuition that emergencies create a context for actions that is very different from other cases of helping and from other opportunities to further obligatory ends. I argue that if we pay attention to how Kant grounds beneficence we see that distress and emergency function as constitutive concerns. They are

Abstract The antinomy of teleological judgment has increasingly been understood as a conflict between regulative principles. But it is not clear why regulative principles can be in conflict at all, since Kant otherwise takes the realization that two conflicting principles are regulative to be sufficient to resolve an antinomy. I argue that in Kant’s view regulative principles do not conflict with one

Abstract This article provides a transcription and analysis of a newly located fragment of Kant’s autograph fair copy of his essay on Perpetual Peace. The 4-page manuscript is part of the John Wild Autograph Collection at Princeton University (USA) and constitutes the immediate sequel to a similar fragment preserved in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg and published in Kant-Studien 77 (1986). The Princeton

Abstract Salomon Maïmon argues that the formal determination of experience in Kant’s first Kritik insufficiently answers the question ‘quid juris?’. As an alternative to Kant’s theory, he develops a genetic transcendentalism in which experience is completely determined a priori. Discussing this genetic approach, I focus on how the spatiotemporal determinations of conscious experience are traced back

Schon die ersten Seiten, dann aber auch der ganze Rest des Buches zeigen, wie vorteilhaft sich dieses Werk von der üblichen englischsprachigen Kantliteratur unterscheidet. So bedient sich der Autor (= JE) nicht etwa der Cambridge Edition für Verweise auf die Akademie-Ausgabe von Kants Schriften, sondern er arbeitet mit eben dieser Ausgabe und übersetzt selber den im Apparat abgedruckten Originaltext

I wish to thank Robert Louden for his comments on my book Kant’s Political Legacy. Louden seems to think highly of my work. “We need more of this kind of scholarship,” he writes generously in closing. And yet he attributes to me quite basic mistakes and inaccuracies, that I will now try to address. Louden’s main, repeated and central worry about the first part of my book is that my Kantian foundation

Abstract The main objective of this paper is to clarify the meaning of Kant’s claim that ‘I think’ is an ‘empirical sentence’. In order to do this, I analyze and interpret a passage from B 422 (footnote) in the Critique of Pure Reason, where it is claimed that the ‘I think’ is an empirical sentence. In interpreting this passage, two different approaches come to mind: On the first reading (L1), the

Abstract In Kantian philosophy, the evil heart is constituted as a system of self-degrading and self-deranging freedom by the coordination of two voluntary acts: the act of establishing radical evil and the act of a voluntary lie to oneself. The consequence is a kind of “madness of freedom”, which characterises the self-deception of evil. By discussing Kantian rhetoric as an elaborate art of writing

Abstract The task of this article is to explore whether Kant developed his insights into reason on the basis of a pre-conceptual paradigm and to explain the functions assumed in this paradigm by metaphorical devices. As far as methods are concerned, the author refers to Lichtenberg’s ideas concerning paradigmatic cognition, but also to Blumenberg, who conceded important functions of orientation to

Abstract I begin by commenting on Kant’s conception of analytic judgements. I then turn to Frege’s notion of analyticity. I argue that his definition of analytic truth in terms of provability from logical axioms and definitions is incomplete. The requisite analyticity of the logical axioms and the definitions, and accordingly the required justification of acknowledging them as true, must be explained

Abstract In this paper, I put forth a novel interpretation of how the third categories under each heading in the table of categories (totality, limitation, community, and necessity) are derived. Drawing on a passage from the first Critique and a letter to Schultz, I argue that in order to derive these categories, a special act of the understanding is required. I propose that we interpret this special

Abstract Kant conceives of chemical dissolutions as involving the infinite division and subsequent blending of solvent and solute. In the resulting continuous solution, every subvolume contains a uniform proportion of each reactant. Erich Adickes argues that this account stands in tension with other aspects of Kant’s Critical philosophy and his views on infinity. I argue that although careful analysis

Abstract In this paper, I examine Kant’s reception of and solution to the problem of the unity of the political will. I propose that Kant distances himself from the modern paradigmatic foundations of sovereignty principally with his theses of the ideality of the general will (section II) and of the apriority of the justification of popular sovereignty (section III). My interpretative hypothesis is

Abstract Pauline Kleingeld’s “Contradiction and Kant’s Formula of Universal Law”, published in this journal in 2017, presents a powerful challenge to what has become the standard (‘practical’) reconstruction of the categorical imperative. In this response to Kleingeld, I argue that she is right to emphasise the ‘simultaneity requirement’ - that we must be able to will a proposed maxim and ‘simulataneously’

zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre in philosophiehistorischen Vorlesungen systematische Ansätze zu einer eigenen ethischen Position entwickelt. Die Selbstbestimmung der Person begreift Cassirer als Grund und Ziel der praktischen Philosophie und die individuelle Verantwortung als deren Zentrum, sie verbindet sich jedoch mit sozial-kollektiven und institutionell-staatlichen Aspekten, die Cassirer zugleich als

definition of obligation, located at the beginning of the main part of the lecture. The translation of “Nöthigung des größten Guths” as “costrizione da parte del sommo bene” (AA 27: 1329; 91) strikes me as confusing, if only because the less expert reader, who will be the primary addressee of a translation, might detect in this phrase a link to Kant’s concept of the highest good, which is usually translated

What makes this Italian edition of the lecture notes known as Naturrecht Feyerabend especially worthwhile is its inclusion of the complete critically revised German text. This edition follows the recent publication, in two instalments of the Kant-Index volume devoted to the Feyerabend notes, of a thoroughly revised version of the text that had originally been edited by Lehmann and which appeared in

Abstract Arthur Liebert was the managing director of the Kant Society and co-editor of Kant-Studien for over 20 years, until 1933. Despite his lifetime of achievement and the challenges he faced as an emigrant, his story remains all but forgotten today. Using archival sources, this essay reconstructs the biographical details of his emigration, focusing on his final years from 1933 to 1946.

Abstract According to Bittner, Kant has established a theory of action that is untenable because it attempts to explain action on the basis of a theory of practical syllogisms. This article defends Kant’s view (developed in GMS II, AA 04: 412.26-30) by explaining the meaning in which actions can be ‘deduced’ from practical laws or from maxims.

Die Geschichte der Philosophie Immanuel Kants umfasst auch ihre Rezeption, ihre Deutungen und Fortbildungen bis in die Gegenwart hinein. Eine solche Sicht auf die Geschichte der Philosophie und die Entfaltung ihrer systematischen Probleme ist allemal charakteristisch für Ernst Cassirers philosophiehistorische Studien. Sie prägt aber auch seine eigenen systematischen, wissenschaftstheoretischen und