The Transcendental Brain

Kant and Schopenhauer

Mallgrave, Harry Francis (author)

The Architect's Brain ; 53-60

2010-01-08

8 pages

9781405195850 , 9781444317275

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444317275.ch4

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Kant, setting the direction of German philosophy for another century , Kant, drawing on rigor of Hume's analysis, offering a way out of Hume's skepticism , purposiveness for Kant ‐ first of all, a subjective and heuristic principle , viewing architecture ‐ animate architectural forms through our representation of its material will , The Transcendental Brain ‐ Kant and Schopenhauer , Kant professing ‐ to have done the same thing for philosophy as Copernicus , Realism in eighteenth century ‐ our senses are but passive recorders of the events of the world , Immanuel Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 , physiological approach of Schopenhauer ‐ romantic philosophers, conceptualizing problems in idealist manner , Kant turned his critical powers ‐ toward architecture in The Critique of Judgment (1790)