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On Kant’s Notion of the Common Sense

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Conference Academic Talk Philosophy

Tue, Oct 24, 2023

1 PM – 3 PM (GMT+3)

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The aim of the talk is to clarify the notion of sensus communis in Kant's philosophy. Kant uses the concept of common sense in various contexts and throughout the entire development of his thinking. In the Critique of Judgment, Kant wants to circumscribe the meaning of the concept of common sense to a way of feeling we have in common, so he uses the Latin expression sensus communis to distinguish this sense from the healthy understanding or common human understanding (Gesunder Menschenverstand or Gemeinermenschenverstand), which would be that basic level of intelligence the lack of which is called stupidity. She will briefly describe the most frequent uses of the notion of common sense in Kant's philosophy and subsequently focus on the aesthetic notion of sensus communis. With that end in view, she will first discuss the complex question of the communicability of a feeling of pleasure in connection with the wider question of belonging to a universal horizon of sharing; secondly, she will clarify the function of reflection regarding the possibility to build such horizon; and finally, she will show in which sense for Kant agreement in an aesthetic judgment is a duty, but at the same time different perspectives are important and cannot be cancelled out. The maxim "to think in position of everyone else," or in other words, "to put oneself in other people's shoes," has a transcendental foundation as well as a task within an ideal horizon of realization of humanity. However, it guarantees pluralism at the same time.

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Giorgia Cecchinato

Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, Belo Horizonte university

Giorgia Cecchinato (Padova, 1974) has a degree in Philosophy from the Università degli studi di Padova (2001) and a PhD (2009) in Philosophy from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She was a researcher and teaching officer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2007-2008) and a DAAD fellow at the Federal University of Paraná. She was a researcher at the Università degli studi di Padova (2008-2009). She is currently an associate professor at UFMG. She was a tutor in the Tutorial Education Program (PET) in Philosophy at UFMG (2019-2021). She works mainly in the area of Modern Philosophy, with emphasis on the following themes: Kant, German Idealism, 18th century philosophy, in its aesthetic and moral implications. She is the author of the monograph Das Problem einer Ästhetik bei Fichte, Würzburg, 2009; and other essays and articles on questions and problems of German Idealism.

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Alessandro Topa

Associate Professor and Chair, philosophy department

AUC

Alessandro Topa obtained both his MA (“Lógos and Praxis. The Structure of Practical Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues”, 1998) and PhD (“Since Thought Needs a Body. The Problem of a Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories in Kant and Peirce”, 2006) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, where he studied Philosophy, Communication Research and Comparative Literature. After completing his studies Topa worked for two years as a free-lance journalist for the renowned Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the German Federal Agency of Civic Education. His main focus in these years was Iranian History, Culture and Politics. Alessandro Topa joined the Department of Philosophy of AUC in September 2009, acting as the Graduate Program Director since 2015. In Fall 2017 he became a fellow of the department of philosophy of the Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg, Germany. He is a member of the Kant-Society, the German Society for Philosophy and the German Society for Semiotics.



Research Interest


  • Categoriology and Metaphysics

  • Semeiotic Logic and Philosophy of Language

  • Theories of Normativity

  • Philosophy of History


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