Kant's critique of the human sciences
Kant famously identified âWhat is man?â as the fundamental question which summarises the whole of philosophy. This statement has occasioned numerous exegetical works, and yet, surprisingly enough, there has been no concerned effort amongst Kantian scholars to examine Kantâs actual philosophy of man. The aim of my dissertation is thus to fill this gap in Kantian scholarship by providing an original, Kantian account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions and their methodology. The first central claim of my thesis is that within the Kantian framework the human sciences occupy a unique standpoint which goes beyond traditional divisions between the theatrical and the practical, the agent and the spectator, the phenomenal and noumenal or the sensible and the intelligible â namely the <i>pragmatic </i>standpoint. The uniqueness of the approach of the human sciences lies in their commitment to investigating human phenomena for the purpose of understanding others and interacting with them both prudentially and morally. Far from merely presenting theoretical observations about human beings, they are value-embedded disciplines which play the crucial role of providing a map for man
Cohen, A.-A.
Kant's critique of the human sciences. Kant famously identified âWhat is man?â as the fundamental question which summarises the whole of philosophy. This statement has occasioned numerous exegetical works, and yet, surprisingly enough, there has been no concerned effort amongst Kantian scholars to examine Kantâs actual philosophy of man. The aim of my dissertation is thus to fill this gap in Kantian scholarship by providing an original, Kantian account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions and their methodology. The first central claim of my thesis is that within the Kantian framework the human sciences occupy a unique standpoint which goes beyond traditional divisions between the theatrical and the practical, the agent and the spectator, the phenomenal and noumenal or the sensible and the intelligible â namely the <i>pragmatic </i>standpoint. The uniqueness of the approach of the human sciences lies in their commitment to investigating human phenomena for the purpose of understanding others and interacting with them both prudentially and morally. Far from merely presenting theoretical observations about human beings, they are value-embedded disciplines which play the crucial role of providing a map for man
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