Can Kant's idea of sensus communis (§40, critique of judgment) be relevantly used in the anticipatory dynamics of living systems?

In §40 of his Critique of Judgment, which is part of the deduction of pure aesthetic judgments, Kant states that, in the case of the appreciation of beauty, it is necessary to proceed in three steps: (i) thinking for oneself (“Selbstdenken”), (ii) thinking in the place of someone else (“An der Stelle jedes andern denken”), (iii) thinking in accordance with oneself (“Jederzeit mit sich selbst einstimmig denken”). We consider this way of proceeding as an instantiation of the process of identification, and will address the question why Kant did not articulate a similar reasoning in relation to living systems, that he deals with in the second part of this Critique. We will explore the epistemological potential of identification - which implies a form of anticipation - in relation to living systems and will set out the epistemological specificities that emerge from this viewpoint.

Jaar van publicatie:2014

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