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Chapter 1 - Judgement and the German Idealists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

Henry Somers-Hall
Henry Somers-Hall
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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The opening chapter looks at the role of judgement in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, focusing on the way in which the legislative function of the understanding is central to transcendental idealism. It shows how Kant associates determination with judgement, and how this association is maintained in Hölderlin and Schelling’s efforts to resolve certain aporias in the Kantian system, with being understood as indeterminate because it differs from the world of judgement. It concludes by showing how Hegel resolves difficulties presented by Hölderlin’s distinction between judgement and being by seeing judgement as an abstraction from a richer process of reason. As such, it demonstrates the centrality of judgement in the German Idealist tradition.

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KantHegelSchellingjudgementHölderlinGerman idealism
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Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy
A New Reading of Six Thinkers
 , pp. 9 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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