Kant: An Overview of Kant's Project - Yearly Kant Reading Group Kickoff

You're in luck if you're looking for a New Year's resolution.

This meeting will serve as an introduction and overview of Kant's work and thought and a preface to the yearly reading of Kant's Critical Philosophy. It will also be an opportunity to establish goals for our reading. These goals can hopefully bring different perspectives and various unified readings of Kant for those taking another trip through the books.

The overview will allow the curious to ask any questions of interest and will provide a few topics and themes that can be used to organize most of Kant's work and thought.

Online meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/CPM-Kant-Wednesdays

Schedule for the year:

This overview meeting - 1 week (1)

Critique of Pure Reason

Week 1 (2):
Preface (A and B editions; ~25 pages)
pp Avii - xxii, Bvii - xliv
pp 99 - 124 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 5 - 40 (Pluhar)

Week 2 (3):
Introduction (A and B editions; ~25 pages)
pp A1 - 16, B1 - 30
pp 127 - 152 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 43 - 68 (Pluhar)

Week 3 (4):
Transcendental Aesthetic (A and B editions; ~37 pages)
pp A19 - 49, B33 - 73
pp 155 - 192 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 71 - 104 (Pluhar)

Week 4 (5):
Transcendental Logic Introduction, Book I Chapter I (~25 pages)
pp A50 - 83, B74 - 116
pp 193 - 218 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 105 - 140 (Pluhar)

Week 5 (6):
Transcendental Logic Chapter II 'Deduction' (A and B edition; ~47 pages)
pp A84 - 130, B116 - 169
pp 219 - 266 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 141 - 203 (Pluhar)

Week 6 (7):
Transcendental Logic Book II Introduction and Chapter I on the Schematism (~10 pages)
pp A130 - 147, B169 - 187
pp 267 - 277 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 204 - 219 (Pluhar)

Week 7 (8):
Transcendental Logic Book II Chapter II (~17 pages)
pp A148 - 176, B187 - 218
pp 278 - 295 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 220 - 247 (Pluhar)

Week 8 (9):
Analogies of Experience up to Transcendental Logic Book II Chapter III 'Phenomena and Noumena' (~42 pages)
pp A176 - 235, B218 - 294
pp 295 - 337 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 247 - 302 (Pluhar)

Week 9 (10):
Transcendental Logic Book II Chapter III 'Phenomena and Noumena' (A and/or B editions) (~27 pages)
pp A235 - 260, B294 - 315
pp 338 - 365 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 303 - 322 (Pluhar)

Week 10 (11):
Transcendental Logic Appendix 'Amphiboly' (~17 pages)
pp A260 - 292, B316 - 349
pp 366 - 383 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 323 - 345 (Pluhar)

Week 11 (12):
Transcendental Dialectic Introduction, Book I (~26 pages)
pp A293 - 340, B349 - 398
pp 384 - 410 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 346 - 381 (Pluhar)

Week 12 (13):
Transcendental Dialectic Paralogisms (A and B editions; ~47 pages)
pp A341 - 405, B399 - 332
pp 411 - 458 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 382 - 441 (Pluhar)

Week 13 (14):
Transcendental Dialectic Antinomies Section I - IV (~48 pages)
pp A405 - 484, B432 - 512
pp 459 - 507 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 442 - 501 (Pluhar)

Week 14 (15):
Transcendental Dialectic Antinomies Section V - IX (~42 pages)
pp A485 - 567, B513 - 595
pp 508 - 550 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 502 - 559 (Pluhar)

Week 15 (16):
Transcendental Dialectic Ideal of Pure Reason (~38 pages)
pp A567 - 642, B513 - 670
pp 551 - 589 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 560 - 616 (Pluhar)

Week 16 (17):
Appendix to Transcendental Dialectic (~33 pages)
pp A642 - 704, B670 - 732
pp 590 - 623 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 617 - 662 (Pluhar)

Week 17 (18):
Doctrine of Method Introduction, Chapter I (~43 pages)
pp A705 - 794, B733 - 822
pp 627 - 671 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 663 - 727 (Pluhar)

Week 18 (19):
Doctrine of Method Chapter II (~18 pages)
pp A795 - 830, B823 - 858
pp 672 - 690 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 728 - 755 (Pluhar)

Week 19 (20):
Doctrine of Method Chapter III and IV (~13 pages)
pp A832 - 856, B860 - 884
pp 691 - 704 (Guyer/Wood)
pp 755 - 774 (Pluhar)

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

Week 1 (21):
Preface and Section 1: Transition from common rational to philosophic moral cognition
pp 43 - 60 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge; 17 pages)
pp 4:387 - 4:405

Week 2 (22):
Section 2: Transition from popular moral philosophy to metaphysics of morals
pp 61 - 93 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge; **32 pages**)
pp 4:406 - 4:445

Week 3 (23):
Section 3: Transition from metaphysics of morals to the critique of pure practical reason
pp 94 - 108 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge; 14 pages)
pp 4:446 - 4:463

Critique of Practical Reason

Week 1 (24):
Preface and Introduction (~10 pages)
pp 139 - 149 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge)
pp 3 - 25 (Pluhar)
pp 5:3 - 16 (Complete Works)

Week 2 (25):
Book I (Analytic) - Chapter I (~33 pages)
pp 153 - 186 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge)
pp 29 - 77 (Pluhar)
pp 5:19 - 57 (Complete Works)

Week 3 (26):
Book I (Analytic) - Chapters II and III (~39 pages)
pp 186 - 225 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge)
pp 77 - 135 (Pluhar)
pp 5:57 - 106 (Complete Works)

Week 4 (27):
Book II (Dialectic) (~32 pages)
pp 226 - 258 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge)
pp 137 - 186 (Pluhar)
pp 5:107 - 148 (Complete Works)

Week 5 (28):
Doctrine of Method (~10 pages)
pp 261 - 271 (Practical Philosophy, Cambridge)
pp 189 - 205 (Pluhar)
pp 5:151 - 163 (Complete Works)

Metaphysics of Morals: Doctrine of Right

Week 1 (29):
Preface, Introduction, Introduction to the Doctrine of Right (365 - 397; 32 pages)

Week 2 (30):
Private Right, Chapters I and II (401 - 443; 42 pages)

Week 3 (31):
Chapter III, Public Right Section I (443 - 481; 38 pages)

Week 4 (32):
Public Right Section II, III, and Appendix (482 - 506; 24 pages)

Perpetual Peace

Week 1 (33): Sections I and II (317 - 331, 14 pages)

Week 2 (34): First Supplement to end (331 - 351, 20 pages)

Metaphysics of Morals: Doctrine of Virtue

Week 1 (35):
Preface and Introduction (509-540; 31 pages)

Week 2 (36):
Part 1 Introduction and Book 1 on Perfect Duties (543-564; 21 pages)

Week 3 (37):
Book 2 on Imperfect Duties (565-588; 23 pages)

Week 4 (38):
Method of Ethics (591-603; 12 pages)

Critique of the Power of Judgment

Week 1 (39):
First Introduction (optional), Preface and Introduction (3 - 82, 79 pages)
(NOTE: the first introduction is not an editor or translator introduction, it is by Kant. It is sometimes at the end of the book.)

Week 2 (40):
Book I - Analytic of the Beautiful (§1 - 23) (89 - 127, 38 pages)

Week 3 (41):
Book II - Analytic of the Sublime (§23 - 30) (128 - 159, 31 pages)

Week 4 (42):
§30 - 43 (160 - 182, 22 pages)

Week 5 (43):
§43 - 55 (182 - 212, 30 pages)

Week 6 (44):
The Dialectic of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment (§55 - 61) (213 - 230, 17 pages)

Week 7 (45):
Analytic of the Teleological Power of Judgment (§61 - 69) (233 - 255, 22 pages)

Week 8 (46):
Dialectic of the Teleological Power of Judgment (§69 - 79) (257 - 284, 27 pages)

Week 9 (47):
Appendix §79 - 87 (285 - 313, 28 pages)

Week 10 (48):
Appendix §87 - END (313 - 346, 33 pages)

Special Meetings
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving will be our yearly Drunk Kant meeting.

We will have up to three extra weeks at the end of the year for meetings if desired.