Kant against the Cult of Genius: Epistemic and Moral Considerations

Williams, Jessica J.

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“…This close link between science and genius is a pretty recent achievement for which we have to thank, again, the immediate successors of Kant. While in the seventeenth century the term “genius" was closely linked with those practices that we today would call “scientific” (see Ziche 2022b; Williams 2021), Kant's critical intervention dramatically complicates things. After Kant, some considerable argument was required to claim (or reclaim) the status of genius for the scientist.…”

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Creativity and genius as epistemic virtues: Kant and earlypost‐Kantianson the teachability of epistemic virtue

Ziche

2023

Metaphilosophy

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There is a classical paradox in education that also affects the epistemic virtues: the paradox inherent in the demand to develop general strategies for training persons to be free and creative individuals. This problem becomes particularly salient with respect to the epistemic virtue of creativity, the more so if we consider a radical form of creativity, namely, genius. This paper explores a historical constellation in which rigorous claims about the standards for knowledge and morality were developed, along with a highly influential notion of genius: the philosophy of Kant and of immediate post‐Kantian philosophers. The paper shows how in this historical moment came together a new notion of “science,” a theory of “genius” and of virtues, and an analysis of the promises and difficulties inherent in educating a virtuous or creative individual. In this constellation of ideas, there also emerges a potentially fruitful account of how to teach intellectual creativity.

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Section: Kant On Genius and Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity and genius as epistemic virtues: Kant and earlypost‐Kantianson the teachability of epistemic virtue

Ziche

2023

Metaphilosophy

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Kant against the Cult of Genius: Epistemic and Moral Considerations

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Creativity and genius as epistemic virtues: Kant and earlypost‐Kantianson the teachability of epistemic virtue

Creativity and genius as epistemic virtues: Kant and earlypost‐Kantianson the teachability of epistemic virtue

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