Dr Joe Saunders joe.saunders@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
In his pre-critical lectures on rational psychology, Kant employs an argument from the I to the transcendental freedom of the soul. In the (A-edition of the) first Critique, he distances himself from rational psychology, and instead offers four paralogisms of this doctrine, insisting that ‘I think’ no longer licenses any inferences about a soul. Kant also comes alive to the possibility that we could be thinking mechanisms - rational beings, but not agents. These developments rob him of his pre-critical rationalist argument for freedom. In the Groundwork, this is a serious problem; if we are not free, morality will be a phantasm for us. In Groundwork III, Kant attempts to overcome this by offering a new argument for our freedom, involving the standpoint of practical reason. In this paper, I detail these developments and present a practical and phenomenological reading of Kant’s approach in Groundwork III. I also venture a defence of this new argument.
Saunders, J. (2014). Kant, Rational Psychology and Practical Reason. Kant Yearbook, 6(1), 115-136. https://doi.org/10.1515/kantyb-2014-0107
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Aug 21, 2014 |
Publication Date | 2014 |
Deposit Date | Oct 16, 2018 |
Journal | Kant Yearbook |
Print ISSN | 1868-4599 |
Electronic ISSN | 1868-4602 |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 115-136 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/kantyb-2014-0107 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1316389 |
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