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| Author(s): |
Leonardo Rennó Ribeiro Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-03-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Pedro Paulo Garrido Pimenta;
Vinicius Berlendis de Figueiredo;
Monique Hulshof;
Luis Fernandes dos Santos Nascimento;
Ricardo Ribeiro Terra
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| Advisor: | Pedro Paulo Garrido Pimenta |
| Abstract | |
The present thesis starts from the diagnosis that Pragmatic Anthropology (1798) is traditionally considered by Kantian commentators to be peripheral regarding Kants critical corpus, resulting in a certain detachment of the anthropological investigations from the central concerns of his critical philosophy. Against this line of argumentation, it is proposed here a broad interpretation of Vorlesungen über Anthropologie and Pragmatic Anthropology. The aim of this thesis is to argue that Kant gradually developed a coherent conception of human nature in relation to the set of basic principles underpinning his philosophical project. The first chapter, by examining the rise of anthropology as a discipline in the winter semester of 1772-1773 as it splits from the lectures on physical geography, will investigate the place of Weltkenntnis in Kantian philosophy. Then, the distinctiveness of this new discipline compared to physical geography and natural history as well as its reciprocity concerning Kants critical project will be delimitated through an analysis of the methodology proposed by Kant. The second chapter is devoted to the exploration of the link between anthropological research and Criticism in view of the Kantian conception of Enlightenment. It will be shown how Kants reflections on human nature helped to shape his own definition of progress of mankind, thereby allowing him to redefine the discipline of History as Geschichte, on the one hand, and to examine the process of Enlightment in relation to the cultivation of sensibility, on the other. Finally, since the former discussion mobilizes two key notions of the Kantian aesthetics, the third chapter intends to discuss the judgment of taste and the faculty of imagination as these notions were considered within Kants lectures on anthropology with a special emphasis on their emancipatory potential in light of Kants own conception of Culture. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/23185-0 - The cultivation of the faculties in Kant's Lectures on Anthropology |
| Grantee: | Leonardo Rennó Ribeiro Santos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |