Giulia Milli

Giulia Milli is PhD student at the University of Genova (FINO Consortium) and is concerned with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. She was previously visiting research scholar at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and will be visiting the History of Philosophy Forum in the Fall 2023, to work on her project focused on the feeling in Kant.

Her project aims to shed light on the transcendental value of aesthetic feeling insofar as it grounds the possibility of a peculiar consciousness through which the human being grasps himself as a whole. Aesthetic feeling pertains only the human being as both rational and embodied being, and can therefore be considered as an anthropological feature. This enquiry on feeling relies on aesthetics grounds, but Kant’s anthropology will also be taken into account to give an integrated and more comprehensive reading of it. Insofar as the feeling is shown to be an anthropological feature, it can be also considered as an element to further define the human being. For this reason, the projects also aims to show the connection between the feeling and the concept of Bestimmung des Menschen, whose meaning cannot be fully translated. The Bestimmung of the human being includes different meanings such as determination, destination, and vocation, and the way in which the feeling works seems to move along these meanings. The feeling in Kant helps to define the human being and to make him aware of his peculiar nature, i.e., an embodied being whose final destination is supersensible (the moral destination).

Affiliation: University of Genova

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