Kant on Pleasure and Judgment - Softcover

Rueger, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009380370 ISBN 13: 9781009380379

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Were there interactions between the development of Kant's aesthetics and the development of his moral philosophy? How did Kant view pleasure and displeasure and what role did they play in the formation of his system of the faculties? In this book, Alexander Rueger situates Kant's account of pleasure and displeasure in its eighteenth-century context, with special attention to Leibniz, Wolff, Crusius, and Mendelssohn. He traces the development of Kant's views on pleasure from the 1770s to his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment in 1790, and shows that throughout, Kant understood pleasure as the satisfaction of faculty interests. The significance of this theory for the completion of Kant's critical system in the third Critique is discussed in detail. Rueger's study illuminates both the role of pleasure and displeasure in Kant's thought, and their important connections to the power of judgment.

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About the Author

Alexander Rueger is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. He has published widely in the history and philosophy of science and on Kant's aesthetics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009380370
• ISBN 13: 9781009380379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234