Kant on Rational Sympathy (Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant) - Hardcover

Vilhauer, Benjamin

 
9781009486606: Kant on Rational Sympathy (Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant)
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ISBN 10: 1009486608 ISBN 13: 9781009486606
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This Element explains Kant's distinction between rational sympathy and natural sympathy. Rational sympathy is regulated by practical reason and is necessary for adopting as our own those ends of others which are contingent from the perspective of practical rationality. Natural sympathy is passive and can prompt affect and dispose us to act wrongly. Sympathy is a function of a posteriori productive imagination. In rational sympathy, we freely use the imagination to step into others' first-person perspectives and associate imagined intuitional contents with the concepts others use to communicate their feelings. This prompts feelings in us that are like their feelings.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009486608
ISBN 13 
9781009486606
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
74

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