Book contents
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- Introduction From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons
- Part I The Appearing Self
- Part II Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
- Part III The Human Person and the Demands of Reason
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction - From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2020
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- Introduction From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons
- Part I The Appearing Self
- Part II Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
- Part III The Human Person and the Demands of Reason
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant is famous for emphasizing that each and every one of us is called to “make use of one’s own understanding without direction from another” (Enlightenment 8:35). We are all called to make up our own minds, independently from the external constraints imposed on us by others. In the face of this Enlightenment calling, much of Kant’s philosophy, then, reads as a manual for how to employ one’s mental faculties in the proper way – faculties that are supposed to be universally realized by all human beings. Given his focus on a universal conception of the human mind, Kant tells us surprisingly little about what makes us the unique individual persons we are and how we come to know ourselves as such.
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- Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-FormationThe Nature of Inner Experience, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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