BODY AND PRACTICE IN KANT

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THE BODY IN THE CRITIQUE 153 which explicit references to the body had no place. 81 Perhaps he excluded such references because he wanted to stress the logical structure of his transcendental arguments and feared that too many and explicit references to the body would distract attention from this structure. Or perhaps he omitted them simply in order to prevent the text from becoming too voluminous. A further possibility is that Kant’s transcendental philosophy derives its structure, or parts of it, from reflections centered on the body and embodied acts and practices, but that he was not fully aware of this. Sometimes, when examining certain passages in the Critique, I also feel this to be the case; I read passages that seem to demand an interpretation referring to embodied acts or practices but Kant’s way of expressing himself seems to resist this reading. In such cases, it is as if the text reflects a struggle between two perspectives, one based on the insight that embodied acts and practices are indispensable to our experience of the world, the other based on some alternative conception. It is, however, as if this struggle does not really catch Kant’s attention, leading to a disturbing ambiguity in the text. 82 If the idea of an unconscious struggle between ideas seems unattractive, we may perhaps instead return to the idea that Kant did not succeed in working through all parts of his system. The ideas emphasized in my interpretation of the Critique may be seen, then, as belonging to the ideas that he did not have the time, interest or energy to make fully explicit, and this may then account for the relative absence of references to the body or to embodied acts and practices. Which of the above explanations is to be preferred, I will not try to decide here. My reason for suggesting them is only to argue that, from the fact that explicit references to the body and to embodied acts and practices are so few in the Critique, we cannot conclude that such acts 81 Henrich (1989), 34 notices that the juridical Deduktionsschriften that may have represented Kant’s stylistic ideal when writing the Critique, were ‘brief, solid and perspicuous’. The term Deduktionsschrift refers to a genre originally used by lawyers to justify controversial legal claims. If Henrich is right, it may explain the abstract and dry style of the Critique. 82 That there is more to be found in the Critique than both the reader, and even its author, may be aware of, is also suggested by Bennett (1966), 4. He maintains that Kant’s style is often confused, and his philosophical points badly expressed, however, they may still contain hints leading to useful and interesting insights: ‘Kant has a natural, subliminal sensitivity to philosophical problems, so that even where he argues badly his writing is rich in hints and suggestions which can lead one to insights which Kant himself did not have.’
154 THE BODY IN THE CRITIQUE and practices are irrelevant to the transcendental discourse. There are several ways of explaining the relative absence of such references and some are compatible with the interpretation promoted here, that the body and embodied acts and practices are after all essential to Kant’s transcendental reflections.
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BODY AND PRACTICE IN KANT
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BODY AND PRACTICE IN KANT by HELGE
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If, instead of gluing a child to bo
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viii CONTENTS 3.5 Basedow and Crusi
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x CONTENTS 9.3 The production of ti
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xii ABBREVIATIONS vorhergehenden Be
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2 INTRODUCTION philosophy of man at
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4 INTRODUCTION Norway Jens Saugstad
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6 INTRODUCTION practice. This theor
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8 INTRODUCTION deduce a philosophic
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1. THE EMBODIED MIND It is notewort
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THE EMBODIED MIND This first chapte
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Both these forms of psychology belo
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just mentioned different questions
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THE EMBODIED MIND diversity. Instea
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Kant is known for having later cons
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movement. An example of such a move
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25 The question of whether the mind
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as forms of intuitions in the Criti
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substances. It does so in virtue of
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31 If one looks for the cause of im
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instance when the question of the a
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outlook in the development of Kant
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Is this all there is to say, then?
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THE EMBODIED MIND ontologically con
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THE EMBODIED MIND field. Does this
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THE EMBODIED MIND seem to have attr
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THE EMBODIED MIND reflections on th
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1.12 A new perspective on the body-
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THE EMBODIED MIND things in themsel
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THE EMBODIED MIND As I understand i
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THE EMBODIED MIND seems not to be a
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THE EMBODIED MIND if we cannot obse
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approach. 114 At the same time, the
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THE EMBODIED MIND constituted by em
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2. BODY AND SPACE The sense of touc
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spatial form of a given object, or
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ody, as well as the experience we h
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BODY AND SPACE 67 The Magnitude of
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BODY AND SPACE awareness we have of
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One of the planes is placed so that
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concepts, and perhaps the idea of a
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75 In the dark I orient myself in a
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BODY AND SPACE Above I argued that,
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3. RATIONALITY AND EMBODIED PRACTIC
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important knowledge about human rat
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RATIONALITY AND EMBODIED PRACTICE o
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According to Rousseau, embodied act
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ational powers are not developed in
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e based on this idea, i.e. it requi
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RATIONALITY AND EMBODIED PRACTICE w
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RATIONALITY AND EMBODIED PRACTICE s
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Page 151 and 152: 142 Hoppe may also be mentioned her
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Page 155 and 156: 146 Gerhardt dates the tradition am
Page 157 and 158: 148 They do not, as the term ‘tra
Page 159 and 160: 150 Eigennahme] it suggests that th
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204 SPATIAL SCHEMATISM All this doe
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206 SPATIAL SCHEMATISM And it is th
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208 SPATIAL SCHEMATISM There is str
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210 SPATIAL SCHEMATISM However, eve
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212 SPATIAL SCHEMATISM Critique, an
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214 THE BODY AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL
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8. KANT’S TRANSCENDENTAL EPISTEMO
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251 means that ‘a priori’ may b
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265 The fact that the categories ar
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9. QUANTITY The pure schema of magn
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QUANTITY 269 associated with four b
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QUANTITY 271 that you cannot take i
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QUANTITY 273 In addition to this, a
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QUANTITY 275 is another example fre
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278 THE RELATIONAL CATEGORIES we us
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280 THE RELATIONAL CATEGORIES subst
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282 THE RELATIONAL CATEGORIES I see
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284 THE RELATIONAL CATEGORIES 10.4
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286 THE RELATIONAL CATEGORIES ... [
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11. CAUSALITY AND COMMON SENSE PHYS
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CAUSALITY AND COMMON SENSE PHYSICS
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CONCLUSION Man can only become man
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CONCLUSION 309 but it is clearly pr
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CONCLUSION 311 Kant's lack of a pre
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Works by Kant German I
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Works by Others 315 Al
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 317 Cassirer, Ernst. K
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 319 Heimsoeth, Heinz.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 321 MacIntyre, Alasdai
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Polanyi, Michael. Pers
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 325 Sommer, Manfred. D
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Allison, Henry, 11, 63, 138, 140, 1
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Studies in German Idealism 1. A. Pe
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