Ohledání Kantova zdravého rozumu

• Authors: Petr Glombíček

Title variants

EN

A Report on Kant’s common sense

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to forestall certain one-sided interpretations of Kant’s notion of common sense. First, the very occurrence of the term in Kant’s work is widely underestimated, with attention being limited to his negative strictures towards the Scottish school. Second, common sense tends to be instrumentally over-interpreted for particular purposes in aesthetics or political philosophy. The interpretation proposed here, in contrast, begins by pointing out the positive use of the notion already in the first Critique. Furthermore a close reading reveals the epistemological justification of sensus communis in the third Critique, a justification that bases the Kantian notion on the Aristotelian idea of koiné aisthésis what makes the communal aspect of it an effect rather than a foundation. In effect, Kant turns out to be transforming previous uses of the notion of common sense into its current form.

Keywords

EN

common sense; Kant

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 893-913
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Petr Glombíček

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic