Kant on desire

Authors

  • Maria Borges Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2022.v10n2.p19

Keywords:

desire, faculty of desire, mind, faculties

Abstract

In this article, I analyze the Kantian conception of desire and faculty to desire. I begin by showing that there are two meanings of desire, one linked to the idea of inclination and the other, to the idea of will. I show that in the Lessons of the 70s and 80s, Kant presents his conception of mind as composed of three faculties: faculty of knowing, of feeling pleasure and displeasure and of desiring. I analyze the definition of faculty of desire given in the Second Critique. Finally, I show that there is a double level of the faculty of desire, one related to affections and passions and the other related to practical reason.

Author Biography

  • Maria Borges, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). She was Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Humboldt Universität (Germany) and Columbia University (USA). She is researcher of the CNPq/Brazil. She published many articles, including “What can Kant teach us about emotions” (The Journal of Philosophy, 2004) and “Physiology and the Controlling of Affects in Kant’s Philosophy” (Kantian Review, 2008). She also published the book Body and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant (Bloomsbury, 2019). She is also is the author of the following books in Portuguese: História e Metafísica em Hegel/History and Metaphysics in Hegel (1998), Amor/ Love (2004), Atualidade de Hegel/Actuality of Hegel (2008), co-author of O que você precisa saber sobre Ética/All you should know about Ethics (2003), and the co-editor of Kant: Liberdade e Natureza/Kant: Freedom and Nature (2005), and Filosofia: Machismo e Feminismo/ Philosophy: Sexism and Feminism (EdUFSC, 2014). Her philosophical interests are German idealism, Kantian ethics, theory of emotions and feminist philosophy.

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Published

2023-01-24

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022): Dossiê “Kantianas”

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Kant on desire. (2023). Kantian Studies (EK), 10(2), 19. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2022.v10n2.p19