TY  - JOUR
A1  - Godess-Riccitelli, Moran
T1  - The final end of imagination
T2  - Filosofia unisinos
N2  - 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.
KW  - culture
KW  - final end
KW  - Highest Good
KW  - hope
KW  - imagination
KW  - Kant
KW  - moral ideal reflective judgment
KW  - ultimate end
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55130
SN  - 1519-5023
SN  - 1984-8234
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
SP  - 107
EP  - 115
PB  - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
CY  - São Leopoldo
ER  -