Book contents
- The Aristotelian Kant
- The Aristotelian Kant
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The “Aristotle of Königsberg”?
- Chapter 2 Kant’s Hylomorphism and the Thing-in-Itself
- Chapter 3 Truth, Falsity, and the Capacity to Judge
- Chapter 4 Reason’s Supreme Principle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and the Faculty of Reason
- Chapter 5 Form and Matter in Kant’s Account of Self-Consciousness
- Chapter 6 Energeia in Kant’s Critical Philosophy
- Chapter 7 Rational Powers and the ‘Fact of Reason’
- Chapter 8 The Ancient Background of Kant’s Conception of Virtue
- Chapter 9 The End of Action and Its Circumstances
- Chapter 10 Kant on Habit and Time
- References
- Index
Chapter 1 - The “Aristotle of Königsberg”?
Kant and the Aristotelian Mind
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2025
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Book contents
- The Aristotelian Kant
- The Aristotelian Kant
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The “Aristotle of Königsberg”?
- Chapter 2 Kant’s Hylomorphism and the Thing-in-Itself
- Chapter 3 Truth, Falsity, and the Capacity to Judge
- Chapter 4 Reason’s Supreme Principle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and the Faculty of Reason
- Chapter 5 Form and Matter in Kant’s Account of Self-Consciousness
- Chapter 6 Energeia in Kant’s Critical Philosophy
- Chapter 7 Rational Powers and the ‘Fact of Reason’
- Chapter 8 The Ancient Background of Kant’s Conception of Virtue
- Chapter 9 The End of Action and Its Circumstances
- Chapter 10 Kant on Habit and Time
- References
- Index
Summary
Corey Dyck discusses the eighteenth-century German context of Kant’s Critical philosophy and shows that a number of prominent Kantian doctrines can be seen as growing out of discussions of Aristotelian ideas in philosophers such as Wolff and Crusius. These include the idea that there are three fundamental operations of the mind (the tres operationes mentis), that the mind is an “entelechy,” and that the operations of a rational mind are characterized by spontaneity.
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