Kant on Intuition: Western and Asian Perspectives on Transcendental Idealism (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy)

Kant on Intuition: Western and Asian Perspectives on Transcendental Idealism consists of 20 chapters, many of which feature engagements between Kant and various Asian philosophers. Key themes include the nature of human intuition (not only as theoretical―pure, sensible, and possibly intellectual―but also as relevant to Kant’s practical philosophy, aesthetics, the sublime, and even mysticism), the status of Kant’s idealism/realism, and Kant’s notion of an object. Roughly half of the chapters take a stance on the recent conceptualism/non-conceptualism debate. The chapters are organized into four parts, each with five chapters. Part I explores themes relating primarily to the early sections of Kant’s first Critique : three chapters focus mainly on Kant’s theory of the "forms of intuition" and/or "formal intuition", especially as illustrated by geometry, while two examine the broader role of intuition in transcendental idealism. Part II continues to examine themes from the Aesthetic but shifts the main focus to the Transcendental Analytic, where the key question challenging interpreters is to determine whether intuition (via sensibility) is ever capable of operating independently from conception (via understanding); each contributor offers a defense of either the conceptualist or the non-conceptualist readings of Kant’s text. Part III includes three chapters that explore the relevance of intuition to Kant’s theory of the sublime, followed by two that examine challenges that Asian philosophers have raised against Kant’s theory of intuition, particularly as it relates to our experience of the supersensible. Finally, Part IV concludes the book with five chapters that explore a range of resonances between Kant and various Asian philosophers and philosophical ideas. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures Editor’s Introduction Part I The Role of Intuition in Geometry and Transcendental Idealism 1 How Does Transcendental Idealism Overcome the Scandal of Philosophy? Perspectives on Kant’s Objekt/Gegenstand Distinction 2 Kant, Euclid, and the Formal Intuition of Space 3 Geometrical Concepts and Formal Intuition 4 Pure Intuitions and Pure Forms of Intuition in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Elsewhere 5 Intuition and Existence: How Intuition Helps Construct and Disrupt Transcendental Idealism Part II The Function and Status of Intuition in Human Cognition 6 The Given in Theoretical and Practical Cognition: Intuition and the Moral Law 7 Intuitions Under the Asymmetric Structure of the Subject–Object Relation—A Conceptualist Reading Based on the B Deduction 8 Non-Conceptual Content of Intuition and Perception 9 Kant on Schematizing: Drawing the Line in Inner Intuition 10 Negative Certainties: Nāgārjuna’s Challenge to Kant on the “Togetherness” of Intuition and Concepts Part III The Sublime and the Challenge of the East on Intuiting the Supersensible 11 The “Sublime”, the “Supersensible Substrate”, and “Spirit”—Intuitions of the Ultimate in Kant’s Third Critique 11 Appendix: Spirit and Sublimity, Pleasure and Freedom 12 Kant’s Impure Sublime: Intuition, Comprehension, and Darstellung 13 Turn from Sensibility to Reason: Kant’s Concept of the Sublime 14 The Ubiquity of Transcendental Apperception 15 Intuition as a Blend of Cognition and Consciousness: An Examination of the Philosophies of Kant and Krishnamurti Part IV East–West Perspectives on the Role of Intuition in Philosophy 16 Philosophia in Sensu Cosmico: Kant’s Notion of Philosophy with Resonance from Chinese Antiquity 17 The Problem of the Two-World Interpretation and Postmetaphysical Thinking: Mou Zongsan’s and Lao Sze-kwang’s Interpretation of Kant’s Philosophy 18 A Confucian Account of Intelligible Intuition in the Teachings of Liu Zongzhou 19 Kant’s Revolutionary Doctrine of Anschauung and the Philosophical Significance of Mencius’ “Original Mind” 20 The Paradox of Representation in Nishitani’s Critique of Kant List of Contributors Index This book features engagements between Kant and various Asian philosophers. Key themes include the nature of human intuition, the status of Kant's idealism/realism, and Kant's notion of an object. Roughly half of the chapters take a stance on the recent conceptualism/non-conceptualism debate.