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Moeller, Sofie. The Court of Reason in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
2013, Kant-Studien 104 (3):301-320.
Topics: Mental States and Processes; Metaethics; Normative Ethics; Social Epistemology
Keywords: Dieter Henrich; argumentation; legal deduction; transcendental deduction
Traditions: Analytic; European; Historical
Languages: English; German
Figures: Immanuel Kant

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Added by: Chris Blake-Turner, Contributed by: Charlotte Sabourin

Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to discuss how the legal metaphors in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason can help us understand the work's transcendental argumentation. I discuss Dieter Henrich's claim that legal deductions form a methodological paradigm for all three Critiques that exempts the deductions from following a stringent logical structure. I also consider Rüdiger Bubner's proposal that the legal metaphors show that the transcendental deduction is a rhetorical argument. On the basis of my own reading of the many different uses of legal analogies in the first Critique, I argue that they cannot form a consistent methodological paradigm as Henrich and Bubner claim.

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