| Contents |
Part I: The moral importance of experience -- Experience and Cartesian Agency -- Locke's Experiential Persons -- Part II: On the continuity between sensibility and reason -- Moral reflection as perception: a Humean account -- Manipulated sensibilities: Rousseau on human nature -- Affect and imagination in processes of cognition: Herder -- Part III: How to study the human being? Philosophy and the empirical method -- Natural history and the formation of the human being: Kant and Herder -- Diversifying method: Kant's Janus-faced conception of the human being. |
| Abstract |
Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes's conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures. Waldow defends the claim that during the early modern period, the debate on experience not only focused on questions arising from the subjectivity of our thinking and feeling but also foregrounded the essentially embodied dimension of our lives as humans. By taking this approach, Waldow departs from the traditional epistemological route dominant in treatments of early-modern conceptions of experience. She makes the case that reflections on experience took center stage in a debate that was moral in nature, because it raised questions about the developmental potential of human beings and their capacity to instantiate the principles of self-determined agency in their lives. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020288252 |
| ISBN | 0190086114 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780190086114 hardcover |
