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1 online resource |
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1. The Primacy of Judgment -- 2. Judgment -- 3: Synthesis: The Common Form of Judgment and Perception -- 4. Synthesis and the Forms of Judgment in Perception -- 5. The Unity of Cognition in the Synthetic Unity of Apperception -- 6. The Drawbacks of Empirical Metaphoric Reductionism -- 7. The Politics of Negative Ontology: Postmodernism |
| Summary |
This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental dimension to them. Judgments are related to perception in that both are syntheses, defined as the unity of representations according to a rule/form. Perceptual syntheses are simultaneously pre-linguistic and proto-rational, and the understanding (Kants Verstand) makes these syntheses conceptually and thus self-consciously explicit. Abele concludes with a transcendental critique of postmodernism and what its deflationary view of ontological categoriessuch as the unified and reasoning subjecthas done to political thinking. He presents an alternative that calls for a return to normativity and a recognition of reason, objectivity, and the universality of principles. Robert Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College, USA. He is the author of A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 25, 2021) |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy.
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Judgment (Logic)
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Transcendental logic.
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Postmodernism -- Political aspects
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Judgment (Logic)
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Postmodernism -- Political aspects
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Transcendental logic
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030795573 |
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3030795578 |
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