"The Typic in Kant’s "Critique of Practical Reason

Moral Judgment and Symbolic Representation

Bibliographic Data

ID8097622
AuthorsAdam Westra (corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-02-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTypic in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110455939
OpenAlexW4243984276
Open LibraryOL36727053M
ISBN9783110455939
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled "On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment," Kant addresses a crucial problem facing his theory of moral judgment: How can we represent the supersensible moral law so as to apply it to actions in the sensible world? Despite its importance to Kant's project, previous studies of the Typic have been fragmentary, disparate, and contradictory. This book provides a detailed commentary on the Typic, elucidating how it enables moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or analogue, of the moral law. In addition, the book situates the Typic, both historically and conceptually, within Kant's theory of symbolic representation. While many commentators have assimilated the Typic to the aesthetic notion of 'symbolic hypotyposis' in the third Critique, the author contends that it has greater continuities with the theoretical notion of 'symbolic anthropomorphism' in the Prolegomena. As the first comprehensive, book-length study of the Typic that critically engages with the secondary literature, this monograph fills an important gap in the research on Kant's ethics and aesthetics and provides a starting point for further inquiry and debate

Epistemology · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Ethics · immanuel Kant (1724-1804) · Judgment (ethics) · Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (Kant, Immanuel) · Moralisches Urteil · Practical reason · Reason · Philosophy