K ant and the Discipline of Reason

Abstract

Abstract Kant's notion of ‘discipline’ has received considerable attention from scholars of his philosophy of education, but its role in his theoretical philosophy has been largely ignored. This omission is surprising since his discussion of discipline in the firstCritiqueis not only more extensive and expansive in scope than his other discussions but also predates them. The goal of this essay is to provide a comprehensive reading of theDiscipline that emphasizes its systematic importance in the firstCritique. I argue that its goal is to establish a set of rules for the use of pure reason that, if followed, will mitigate and perhaps even eliminate our tendency to make judgments about supersensible objects. SinceKant's justification for these rules relies crucially on claims he has defended in theDoctrine ofElements,Iargue further that, far from being a dispensable part of theCritiqueas commentators have tended to claim, theDiscipline is, in fact, the culmination ofKant's critique of metaphysics.

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