The final end of imagination
- One main quandary that emerges in the context of Immanuel Kant’s moral ideal, The Highest Good, is that on the one hand Kant sets it as a moral demand, that is, as a principle that must be comprehended as an attainable end for man in practice while, on the other hand, it is set as a moral ideal, i.e. as something that cannot be concretized and realized within the empirical world. The main goal of this paper is to argue for the realizability of the moral ideal by means of the principle of reflective judgment as a form of judgment that in fact clarifies human limitation. I assert that the very recognition of this limitation constitutes the possibility for hope in that ideal, or for striving towards it, and that this striving is the only way that the moral ideal can be concretized. I examine man’s recognition of self-limitation as a response to the moral demand to realize the moral ideal and the necessity of the power of imagination for this, used reflectively.
Author details: | Moran Godess-RiccitelliORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2017.182.05 |
ISSN: | 1519-5023 |
ISSN: | 1984-8234 |
Title of parent work (English): | Filosofia unisinos |
Subtitle (English): | On the relationship between moral ideal and reflectivity in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment |
Publisher: | Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos |
Place of publishing: | São Leopoldo |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2017/10/31 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Release date: | 2022/06/10 |
Tag: | Highest Good; Kant; culture; final end; hope; imagination; moral ideal reflective judgment; ultimate end |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 9 |
First page: | 107 |
Last Page: | 115 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Philosophie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |