Ingensiep, Hans Werner (Author)
During the last decades historians of the sciences and philosophers have delivered important analyses of details of Kant's theoretical biological ideas, as there are the concepts of organism, race, preformation, epigenesis, and of their functions and roles in and for Kant's theory of knowledge and life. That is the topical background in front of which some of the key concepts of Kantian biophilosophy are examined. The analysis starts with Kant's mature concept of organism in the Critique of the Teleological Judgement. A detailed examination illustrates what Kant has in mind when speaking of `organism', e.g. illustrated as a tree, related to the basic problems of transcendental philosophy and empirical ontology and especially with regard to the relations to Blumenbach's ideas of the Bildungstrieb. Difficult questions arise concer ing the concept of epigenesis, its ambivalent function as an analogy, or its ontological role in Kant's biophilosophy (e.g. discussed by Ingensiep 1994, Sloan 2002, Zammito 2003). Finally some considerations to the different use of the word life in Kant's philosophy are presented with respect to the topical debate on biophilosophy and bioethics.
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