Kant on Analogy

Callanan, John J.

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“…Although Kant’s comments on analogy display ambivalence about its value as a form of reasoning, 5 a relatively coherent account of the concept can be found across Kant’s writings (Callanan, 2008), one that in large part reflects similar uses of the term in the natural philosophy of the 18th century and a tradition of philosophical speculation on living beings whose origins are identified in the work of Aristotle (Lloyd, 1966; Van Den Berg, 2018). It is against a certain common usage of the concept, however, that Kant defines analogy in its specificity.…”

Section: A Proportion Of Concepts: Kant’s Analogymentioning

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“…can be constructed" (Kant, 1998(Kant, [1781 298 [A179/B222]). Mathematical analogies are what Kant calls constitutive, because they enable the construction of concepts a priori, without reference to empirical intuition (Callanan, 2008). For example, if one knows that 1:2 :: 4:x, it can be inferred that x equals 8.…”

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Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order

Burles

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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The domestic analogy is an old but persistent problem in theories of international politics. This paper examines the problem in the work of Immanuel Kant, whose political writings are often cited as a paradigmatic example of the analogy between individuals and states. Attention to Kant’s own conception of analogy, however, shows that the political writings are structured by another “domestic analogy”—between international and cosmopolitan right. This analogy, I argue, is based on a correspondence between the systematic unity of the international and the spherical globe, the figure that for Kant represents the boundaries of world order. International and cosmopolitan right are thus distinguished on the basis of a geopolitical criterion: the global scope of international order. This analogy of order, the paper argues, thus works to domesticate world politics through the structural form of international order. To the extent that contemporary theories of international relations rely on this conception of order, they accept Kant’s answer to the problem of perpetual peace. The paper concludes by drawing broader conclusions from the analysis about the domestic analogy, international order, and world politics.

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Section: A Proportion Of Concepts: Kant’s Analogymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Proportion Of Concepts: Kant's Analogymentioning

confidence: 99%