TY - JOUR
T1 - Kant's rationalist aesthetics
AU - Zuckert, Rachel
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - It is quite standard, even banal, to describe Kant's project in the Critique of Pure Reason [KrV] as a critical reconciliation of rationalism and empiricism, most directly expressed in Kant's claim that intuitions and concepts are two distinct, yet equally necessary, and necessarily interdependent sources of cognition. Similarly, though Kant rejects both the rationalist foundation of morality in the concept of perfection and that of the empiricists in feeling or in the moral sense, one might broadly characterize Kant's moral philosophy as an attempt to reconcile the apriori universality and necessity of rationalist ethics with empiricist (Humean) or sentimentalist (Rousseauean) strictures concerning the distinction between the 'ought' and the 'is', between third personal knowledge of the good and first personal motivation.
AB - It is quite standard, even banal, to describe Kant's project in the Critique of Pure Reason [KrV] as a critical reconciliation of rationalism and empiricism, most directly expressed in Kant's claim that intuitions and concepts are two distinct, yet equally necessary, and necessarily interdependent sources of cognition. Similarly, though Kant rejects both the rationalist foundation of morality in the concept of perfection and that of the empiricists in feeling or in the moral sense, one might broadly characterize Kant's moral philosophy as an attempt to reconcile the apriori universality and necessity of rationalist ethics with empiricist (Humean) or sentimentalist (Rousseauean) strictures concerning the distinction between the 'ought' and the 'is', between third personal knowledge of the good and first personal motivation.
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U2 - 10.1515/KANT.2007.028
DO - 10.1515/KANT.2007.028
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:65849509982
SN - 0022-8877
VL - 98
SP - 443
EP - 463
JO - Kant-Studien
JF - Kant-Studien
IS - 4
ER -