Kant and the Faculty of Feeling

Kelly Sorensen, Diane Williamson

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781107178229
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316836132
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

Kant stated that there are three mental faculties: cognition, feeling, and desire. The faculty of feeling has received the least scholarly attention, despite its importance in Kant's broader thought, and this volume of new essays is the first to present multiple perspectives on a number of important questions about it. Why does Kant come to believe that feeling must be described as a separate faculty? What is the relationship between feeling and cognition, on the one hand, and desire, on the other? What is the nature of feeling? What do the most discussed Kantian feelings, such as respect and sublimity, tell us about the nature of feeling for Kant? And what about other important feelings that have been overlooked or mischaracterized by commentators, such as enthusiasm and hope? This collaborative and authoritative volume will appeal to Kant scholars, historians of philosophy, and those working on topics in ethics, aesthetics, and emotions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Rational Feelings
• 2 Two Different Kinds of Value?: Kant on Feeling and Moral Cognition
• 3 The Practical, Cognitive Import of Feeling: A Phenomenological Account
• 4 Feeling and Inclination: Rationalizing the Animal Within
• 5 Feeling and Desire in the Human Animal
• 6 ‘‘A new sort of a priori principles’’: Psychological Taxonomies and the Origin of the Third Critique
• 7 Between Cognition and Morality: Pleasure as ‘‘Transition’’ in Kant’s Critical System
• 8 What Is It Like to Experience the Beautiful and Sublime?
• 9 How to Feel a Judgment: The Sublime and Its Architectonic Significance
• 10 The Feeling of Enthusiasm
• 11 Sympathy, Love, and the Faculty of Feeling
• 12 Respect, in Every Respect
• 13 Is Kantian Hope a Feeling?
• Bibliography
• Index