Corporality and Life in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the important role played by the feeling of pleasure and the feeling of life (Lebensgefühl) in the Critique of Judgment. It argues that dealing with these issues furthers the Kant’s study in his first two Critiques on the theoretical and the practical subject, and allows us the understanding of the vital background in which the transcendental subjectivity factually inhabits. Finally, it shows that in the case of the human being, his subjectivity cannot be understood without its intimate connection to the body.

Keywords

• Judgement of taste
• feeling
• life
• body