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This page intentionally left blank KANT ON THE HUMAN STANDPOINT In this collection of essays B´eatrice Longuenesse considers three main aspects of Kant’s philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics of nat- ure,hismoralphilosophy,andhisaesthetictheory,underoneunifying principle: Kant’s conception of our capacity to form judgments. She argues that the elements which make up our cognitive access to the world – what Kant calls the ‘‘human standpoint’’ – have an equally importantroletoplayinourmoralevaluationsandouraestheticjudg- ments.HerdiscussionrangesoverKant’saccountofourrepresentations of space and time, his conception of the logical forms of judgments, sufficient reason, causality, community, God, freedom, morality, and beautyinnatureandart.Herbookwillappealtoallwhoareinterested inKantandhisthought. Be´atrice Longuenesse is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Her numerous publications include Kant and the Capacity to Judge(1998). MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY GeneralEditor ROBERT B. PIPPIN, UniversityofChicago AdvisoryBoard GARY GUTTING, UniversityofNotreDame ROLF-PETER HORSTMANN, HumboldtUniversity,Berlin MARK SACKS, UniversityofEssex SomeRecentTitles DanielW.Conway: Nietzsche’sDangerousGame JohnP.McCormick: CarlSchmitt’sCritiqueofLiberalism FrederickA.Olafson: HeideggerandtheGroundofEthics Gu¨nterZo¨ller: Fichte’sTranscendentalPhilosophy WarrenBreckman: Marx,theYoungHegelians,andtheOriginsofRadical SocialTheory WilliamBlattner: Heidegger’sTemporalIdealism CharlesGriswold: AdamSmithandtheVirtuesoftheEnlightenment GaryGutting: PragmaticLiberalismandtheCritiqueofModernity AllenWood: Kant’sEthicalThought KarlAmeriks: KantandtheFateofAutonomy AlfredoFerrarin: HegelandAristotle CristinaLafont: Heidegger,Language,andWorld-Disclosure NicholasWolsterstorff: ThomasReidandtheStoryofEpistemology DanielDahlstrom: Heidegger’sConceptsofTruth MichelleGrier: Kant’sDoctrineofTranscendentalIllusion HenryAllison: Kant’sTheoryofTaste AllenSpeight: Hegel,Literature,andtheProblemofAgency J.M.Bernstein: Adorno WillDudley: Hegel,Nietzsche,andPhilosophy TaylorCarman: Heidegger’sAnalytic DouglasMoggach: ThePhilosophyandPoliticsofBrunoBauer Ru¨digerBubner: TheInnovationsofIdealism JonStewart: Kierkegaard’sRelationstoHegelReconsidered MichaelQuante: Hegel’sConceptofAction WolfgangDetel: FoucaultandClassicalAntiquity RobertM.Wallace: Hegel’sPhilosophyofReality,Freedom,andGod JohannaOksala: FoucaultonFreedom WayneM.Martin: TheoriesofJudgment KANT ON THE HUMAN STANDPOINT ´ BEATRICE LONGUENESSE NewYorkUniversity cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521834780 ©BeatriceLonguenesse2005 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionof relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublishedinprintformat 2005 isbn-13 978-0-511-13491-3 eBook(EBL) isbn-10 0-511-13491-6 eBook(EBL) isbn-13 978-0-521-83478-0 hardback isbn-10 0-521-83478-3 hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurls forexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. CONTENTS Acknowledgments pageix Introduction 1 PARTI Revisitingthecapacitytojudge 1 Kant’scategories,andthecapacitytojudge 17 2 Synthesis,logicalforms,andtheobjectsofourordinary experience 39 3 Synthesisandgivenness 64 PARTII ThehumanstandpointintheTranscendental Analytic 4 Kantonaprioriconcepts:themetaphysicaldeduction ofthecategories 81 5 Kant’sdeconstructionoftheprincipleofsufficientreason 117 6 Kantoncausality:whatwashetryingtoprove? 143 7 Kant’sstandpointonthewhole:disjunctivejudgment, community,andtheThirdAnalogyofExperience 184 PARTIII Thehumanstandpointinthecriticalsystem 8 Thetranscendentalideal,andtheunityofthecriticalsystem 211 vii viii CONTENTS 9 Moraljudgmentasajudgmentofreason 236 10 Kant’sleadingthreadintheAnalyticoftheBeautiful 265 Bibliography 291 Indexofcitations 297 Indexofsubjects 300