Book contents
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Critique of Pure Reason as the Establishment of Reason’s Lawful Condition
- Chapter 2 The Normativity of Law
- Chapter 3 The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories and the Tradition of Legal Deductions
- Chapter 4 The Question of Fact and the Question of Law in Judicial Imputation and in the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
- Chapter 5 The Tribunal of Reason
- Chapter 6 Moral Conscience as the Practical Inner Tribunal
- Chapter 7 Distinguishing between Rightful Claims and Groundless Pretensions
- Chapter 8 Epistemic Authority as both Individual and Collectively Shared
- Chapter 9 Systematicity and Philosophy as the Legislation of Reason
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2020
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Critique of Pure Reason as the Establishment of Reason’s Lawful Condition
- Chapter 2 The Normativity of Law
- Chapter 3 The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories and the Tradition of Legal Deductions
- Chapter 4 The Question of Fact and the Question of Law in Judicial Imputation and in the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
- Chapter 5 The Tribunal of Reason
- Chapter 6 Moral Conscience as the Practical Inner Tribunal
- Chapter 7 Distinguishing between Rightful Claims and Groundless Pretensions
- Chapter 8 Epistemic Authority as both Individual and Collectively Shared
- Chapter 9 Systematicity and Philosophy as the Legislation of Reason
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Beginning with Plato’s Republic, there is a long philosophical tradition of describing the mind as analogous to a state. The idea is that the lower cognitive faculties are governed and held in check by the higher faculties of which reason is the sovereign. This catalogue of analogies between reason and state is no doubt part of the tradition which Kant intends to evoke in the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant’s legal metaphors are in this sense not historically unique or innovative and he makes no such claim. What is different about Kant’s legal metaphors is that the lawfulness of reason provides the constitutive structure of experience. Because of this focus on lawfulness, the legal metaphors prevail over the political ones.
The legal metaphors give a tangible comprehension of reason. As symbolic hypotyposes, they give us an idea of what reason might look like.
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- Kant's Tribunal of ReasonLegal Metaphor and Normativity in the <I>Critique of Pure Reason</I>, pp. 170 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020