Welcome to visit ACADEMIC MONTHLY,Today is

Volume 52 Issue 8
October 2020
Article Contents

Citation: Linhe HAN. On the Problem of Overdetermination in Kant’s Philosophy[J]. Academic Monthly, 2020, 52(8): 37-45, 55. shu

On the Problem of Overdetermination in Kant’s Philosophy

  • According to Kant, a man’s action is an effect of some natural causes on the one hand, and an effect of an unique kind of intelligible cause on the other hand. Here natural cause and intelligible cause respectively correspond to man as an appearance and man as thing in itself (the subject in itself). Some commentators hold that this twofold cause conception of human action puts Kant into the so-called overdetermination dilemma. This critique of Kant is not acceptable, for intelligible cause and natural cause constitute a perfect causal chain: intelligible cause first of all causes decision and act of will as a kind of natural cause, and then decision and act of will causes action.
  • 加载中
    1. [1]

      Xuguang LIU . Free Play - Free Pleasure. Academic Monthly, 2020, 52(6): 122-134.

    2. [2]

      Bihui XU . Humanization of Nature, Free Form and Emotional Realm-Image. Academic Monthly, 2019, 51(11): 117-126.

    3. [3]

      Linhe HAN . Does Kant Make the Distinction of Reason and Cause. Academic Monthly, 2021, 53(12): 13-18.

    4. [4]

      . . Academic Monthly, 2016, 48(12): 102-110.

    5. [5]

      Dazhi YAO . Liberalism’ Conceptions of Freedom: Analysis and Reconstruction. Academic Monthly, 2020, 52(3): 26-33.

    6. [6]

      XIE Changqing . On the Priority of Rawls’ Liberty. Academic Monthly, 2024, 56(1): 92-101.

    7. [7]

      Shuifa HAN . Four Perspectives of Freedom. Academic Monthly, 2019, 51(9): 5-17.

    8. [8]

      . . Academic Monthly, 2016, 48(04): 84-90.

    9. [9]

      Mingjun ZHANG . Instrumental Rationality and the Form of Liberal Political Romanticism. Academic Monthly, 2021, 53(12): 85-95.

    10. [10]

      Xing NAN . Do Artificial Agents Have Free Will?. Academic Monthly, 2021, 53(1): 35-47.

    11. [11]

      . . Academic Monthly, 2016, 48(10): 91-98.

    12. [12]

      Qi YING . Revisiting the Third Concept of Liberty. Academic Monthly, 2020, 52(8): 46-55.

    13. [13]

      Yidong WEIShengguo WU . The Solution of “the Problem of Free Will” in Theory of Contextual Identity. Academic Monthly, 2018, 50(11): 18-27.

    14. [14]

      . . Academic Monthly, 2016, 48(04): 91-101.

    15. [15]

      Ruiquan GAO . The Obscure and the Conspicuous: The Concept of Free Will in the Course of Development of Monism of Mind. Academic Monthly, 2022, 54(11): 5-16.

    16. [16]

      Naiqiao YANG . The Multi-interlingual Translation from “Vernehmen” to “觉知”: On the Deconstruction of the Transcendental Meaning of Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger’s Ontological Hermeneutics. Academic Monthly, 2023, 55(3): 162-176.

    17. [17]

      Miaojie YUXiaotong WANG . China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement and Chinese Enterprise Productivity. Academic Monthly, 2021, 53(3): 50-62.

    18. [18]

      NAN Xing . Kantian Freedom: Anthropological not Metaphysical. Academic Monthly, 2023, 55(8): 27-40.

    19. [19]

      Gangsheng BAO . Why Do Political Crises Take Place:A Theoretical Analysis Based on the Liberal Polity Doctrine. Academic Monthly, 2019, 51(11): 79-94.

    20. [20]

      . . Academic Monthly, 2016, 48(08): 52-60.

Article Metrics

Article views: 1101 Times PDF downloads: 6 Times Cited by: 0 Times

Metrics
  • PDF Downloads(6)
  • Abstract views(1101)
  • HTML views(217)
  • Latest
  • Most Read
  • Most Cited
        通讯作者: 陈斌, bchen63@163.com
        • 1. 

          沈阳化工大学材料科学与工程学院 沈阳 110142

        1. 本站搜索
        2. 百度学术搜索
        3. 万方数据库搜索
        4. CNKI搜索

        On the Problem of Overdetermination in Kant’s Philosophy

        Abstract: According to Kant, a man’s action is an effect of some natural causes on the one hand, and an effect of an unique kind of intelligible cause on the other hand. Here natural cause and intelligible cause respectively correspond to man as an appearance and man as thing in itself (the subject in itself). Some commentators hold that this twofold cause conception of human action puts Kant into the so-called overdetermination dilemma. This critique of Kant is not acceptable, for intelligible cause and natural cause constitute a perfect causal chain: intelligible cause first of all causes decision and act of will as a kind of natural cause, and then decision and act of will causes action.

          HTML

        Relative (20)

        目录

        /

        DownLoad:  Full-Size Img  PowerPoint
        Return