Judgment and Sensibility

Judgment and Sensibility

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  • Author: E. Digby Baltzell
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351294679
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E. Digby Baltzell, one of the keenest observers and analysts of America's upper classes since Thorstein Veblen. Spanning four decades of writing, these essays cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary politics, democratic elitism, Puritanism, Judaism, higher education, urbanization, and the U.S. Supreme Court, among others.


The Judgment of Sense

The Judgment of Sense

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  • Author: David Summers
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521386319
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

With the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and diverse literature about art which helped to explain, justify and shape its new aims. In this book, David Summers provides an investigation of the philosophical and psychological notions invoked in this new theory and criticism. From a thorough examination of the sources, he shows how the medieval language of mental discourse derived from an understanding of classical thought.


Common Sense and Legal Judgment

Common Sense and Legal Judgment

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  • Author: Patricia Cochran
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • ISBN: 0773552324
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

What does it mean when a judge in a court of law uses the phrase “common sense”? Is it a type of evidence or a mode of reasoning? In a world characterized by material and political inequalities, whose common sense should inform the law? Common Sense and Legal Judgment explores this rhetorically powerful phrase, arguing that common sense, when invoked in political and legal discourses without adequate reflection, poses a threat to the quality and legitimacy of legal judgment. Often operating in the service of conservatism, populism, or majoritarianism, common sense can harbour stereotypes, reproduce unjust power relations, and silence marginalized people. Nevertheless, drawing the works of theorists such as Thomas Reid, Antonio Gramsci, and Hannah Arendt into conversation with rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada, Patricia Cochran demonstrates that with careful attention, the democratic, egalitarian, and community-sustaining aspects of common sense can be brought to light. A call for critical self-reflection and the close scrutiny of power relationships and social contexts, this book is a direct response to social justice predicaments and their confounding relationships to law. Creative and interdisciplinary, Common Sense and Legal Judgment reinvigorates feminist and anti-poverty understandings of judgment, knowledge, justice, and accountability.


Enlightened Sentiments

Enlightened Sentiments

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  • Author: Hina Nazar
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780823240074
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 182

Introduction -- Reconstructing sentimentalism -- Sentimentalism and the discourses of freedom : the aesthetic analogy from Hume to Arendt -- Judging Clarissa's heart -- A sentimental education : Rousseau to Godwin -- Judgment, propriety, and the critique of sensibility: the "sentimental" Jane Austen.


Kant and the Capacity to Judge

Kant and the Capacity to Judge

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  • Author: Béatrice Longuenesse
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691214123
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 438

Kant claims to have established his table of categories or "pure concepts of the understanding" according to the "guiding thread" provided by logical forms of judgment. By drawing extensively on Kant's logical writings, Béatrice Longuenesse analyzes this controversial claim, and then follows the thread through its continuation in the transcendental deduction of the categories, the transcendental schemata, and the principles of pure understanding. The result is a systematic, persuasive new interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason. Longuenesse shows that although Kant adopts his inventory of the forms of judgment from logic textbooks of his time, he is nevertheless original in selecting just those forms he holds to be indispensable to our ability to relate representations to objects. Kant gives formal representation to this relation between conceptual thought and its objects by introducing the term "x" into his analysis of logical forms to stand for the object that is "thought under" the concepts that are combined in judgment. This "x" plays no role in Kant's forms of logical inference, but instead plays a role in clarifying the relation between logical forms (forms of concept subordination) and combinations ("syntheses") of perceptual data, necessary for empirical cognition. Considering Kant's logical forms of judgment thus helps illuminate crucial aspects of the Transcendental Analytic as a whole, while revealing the systematic unity between Kant's theory of judgment in the first Critique and his analysis of "merely reflective" (aesthetic and teleological) judgments in the third Critique.


Power, Judgment and Political Evil

Power, Judgment and Political Evil

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  • Author: Danielle Celermajer
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317076788
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

In an interview with Günther Gaus for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German intellectuals with the Nazis, she said farewell to philosophy when she fled the country. This book examines Arendt's ideas about thinking, acting and political responsibility, investigating the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life. By joining in the conversation between Arendt and Gaus, each contributor probes her ideas about thinking and judging and their relation to responsibility, power and violence. An insightful and intelligent treatment of the work of Hannah Arendt, this volume will appeal to a wide number of fields beyond political theory and philosophy, including law, literary studies, social anthropology and cultural history.


Critique of Judgment

Critique of Judgment

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  • Author: Immanuel Kant
  • Publisher: Hackett Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780872200258
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 692

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain natural phenomena as beautiful, says Kant, when we recognise in nature a harmonious order that satisfies the mind's own need for order. The second half of the critique concentrates on the apparent teleology in nature's design of organisms. Kant argues that our minds are inclined to see purpose and order in nature and this is the main principle underlying all of our judgements. Although this might imply a super sensible Designer, Kant insists that we cannot prove a supernatural dimension or the existence of God. Such considerations are beyond reason and are solely the province of faith.


Judgment in the Victorian Age

Judgment in the Victorian Age

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  • Author: James Gregory
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 135140069X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.


Critique of the Power of Judgment

Critique of the Power of Judgment

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  • Author: Immanuel Kant
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521348928
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 484

The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. This translation of Kant's masterpiece follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume, first published in 2000, includes: the indispensable first draft of Kant's introduction to the work; an English edition notes to the many differences between the first (1790) and second (1793) editions of the work; and relevant passages in Kant's anthropology lectures where he elaborated on his aesthetic views. All in all this edition offers the serious student of Kant a dramatically richer, more complete and more accurate translation.


Kant on Pleasure and Judgment

Kant on Pleasure and Judgment

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  • Author: Alexander Rueger
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009380346
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 235

An exploration of Kant's views on pleasure in the 18th-century context, leading to an interpretation of the third Critique.