Essays On Kant

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 305 pages
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Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199647026

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Essays on Kant by Henry E. Allison Pdf

Essays on Kant contains a collection of seventeen essays written by Henry E. Allison, one of the world's leading scholars on Kant. Although these essays cover virtually the full spectrum of Allison's work on Kant, most of them revolve around three basic themes: the nature of transcendental idealism and its relation to other aspects of Kant's thought; freedom of the will; and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. The first two themes are intended asclarifications, elaborations, and further developments of Allison's previous work on Kant, while the essays on the third theme demonstrate the central place of Kant's 'critical' philosophy in his thought.Allison places Kant's views in their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance to present day philosophers.

Author : Tom Rockmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015050744914

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New Essays on the Precritical Kant by Tom Rockmore Pdf

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Author : Brian Jacobs,Patrick Kain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139441452

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Essays on Kant's Anthropology by Brian Jacobs,Patrick Kain Pdf

Kant's lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power. They are immensely important for advancing our understanding of Kant's conception of anthropology, its development, and the notoriously difficult relationship between it and the critical philosophy. This 2003 collection of essays by some of the leading commentators on Kant offers a systematic account of the philosophical importance of this material that should nevertheless prove of interest to historians of ideas and political theorists. There are two broad approaches adopted: a number of the essays consider the systematic relations of the anthropology to critical philosophy, especially speculative knowledge and ethics. Other essays focus on the anthropology as a major source for the clarification of both the content and development of Kant's work. The volume also serves as an interpretative complement to the translation of the lectures in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.

Author : Sari Kisilevsky,Martin J Stone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782253075

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Freedom and Force by Sari Kisilevsky,Martin J Stone Pdf

This collection of essays takes as its starting point Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, a seminal work on Kant's thinking about law, which also treats many of the contemporary issues of legal and political philosophy. The essays offer readings and elucidations of Ripstein's thought, dispute some of his claims and extend some of his themes within broader philosophical contexts, thus developing the significance of Ripstein's ideas for contemporary legal and political philosophy. All of the essays are contributions to normative philosophy in a broadly Kantian spirit. Prominent themes include rights in the body, the relation between morality and law, the nature of coercion and its role in legal obligation, the role of indeterminacy in law, the nature and justification of political society and the theory of the state. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience, including legal scholars, Kant scholars, and philosophers with an interest in Kant or in legal and political philosophy.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191631528

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Essays on Kant by Henry E. Allison Pdf

This volume comprises seventeen essays by Henry E. Allison, one of the world's leading Kant scholars. They cover virtually the full spectrum of Allison's work on Kant, ranging from his epistemology, metaphysics, and moral theory to his views on teleology, political philosophy, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of religion. But most of the essays revolve around three basic themes: the nature of transcendental idealism and its relation to other aspects of Kant's thought; freedom of the will; and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. The first two themes have been prominent in Allison's work on Kant since its inception. The essays on the third theme constitute a major new contribution to the understanding of Kant's 'critical' philosophy; their primary concern is to demonstrate the central place of the third Critique in Kant's thought. Among the notable features of Allison's essays is the presence of a significant comparative dimension, which places Kant's views in their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance. To this end, these views are contrasted with those of his major predecessors and immediate successors, as well as philosophers of the present day.

Author : Howard L. Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226899098

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Essays on Kant's Political Philosophy by Howard L. Williams Pdf

As a political philosopher, Kant has until recently been overshadowed by his compatriots Hegel and Marx. With his strong defense of the rights of the person and his deep insight into the strengths and weaknesses of modern society Kant, possibly more than any other political thinker, anticipated the problems of the late twentieth century. Kant's political philosophy, wedded as it is to rights, reform and gradual progress, is emerging from the shadows cast by Hegelian and Marxist thinking about the state. In this volume, thirteen distinguished contributors from the United States, Canada, Britain, and Germany cast light on important aspects of Kant's liberal thinking. Key topics covered include Kant's liberal reformism, his relation with Hegel, his attitude to women, the use of reason, revolution, Kant's optimism and his moral and legal rigorism. Howard Williams is a reader in political theory in the Department of International Politics, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. His previous publications include Kant's Political Philosophy, Concepts of Ideology, and Hegel, Heraclitus, and Marx's Dialectic.

Author : Robert B. Louden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199877584

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Kant's Human Being by Robert B. Louden Pdf

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, "What is the human being" is philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. Louden analyzes and evaluates Kant's own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. This collection of twelve essays is divided into three parts. In Part One (Human Virtues), Louden explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant's ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant's virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. In Part Two (Ethics and Anthropology), he uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant's anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant's work on human nature and his ethics. Finally, in Part Three (Extensions of Anthropology), Louden explores specific aspects of Kant's theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education ,and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings. Kant's Human Being offers a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the question that Kant held to be the most important of all, and will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to all who are concerned with the study of human nature.

Author : Dieter Henrich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674929055

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The Unity of Reason by Dieter Henrich Pdf

In this collection comprising four of his most influential essays, Henrich proves himself unique in the conjunction of philosophical acumen, insight, and originality that he brings to Kant interpretation.

Author : James Bohman,Matthias Lutz-Bachmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 0262522357

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Perpetual Peace by James Bohman,Matthias Lutz-Bachmann Pdf

The authors argue for the continued theoretical and practical relevance of the cosmopolitan ideals of Kant's essay "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch."

Author : Lewis White Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783727860

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Essays on Kant and Hume by Lewis White Beck Pdf

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191072260

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The Virtues of Freedom by Paul Guyer Pdf

The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends. When regulated by the principle that the freedom of all is equally valuable, the freedom to set our own ends — what Kant calls "humanity" - becomes what he calls autonomy. These essays explore Kant's strategies for establishing the premise that freedom is the inner worth of the world or the essential end of humankind, as he says, and for deriving the specific duties that fundamental principle of morality generates in the empirical circumstances of human existence. The Virtues of Freedom further investigates Kant's attempts to prove that we are always free to live up to this moral ideal, that is, that we have free will no matter what, as well as his more successful explorations of the ways in which our natural tendencies to be moral — dispositions to the feeling of respect and more specific feelings such as love and self-esteem — can and must be cultivated and educated. Guyer finally examines the various models of human community that Kant develops from his premise that our associations must be based on the value of freedom for all. The contrasts but also similarities of Kant's moral philosophy to that of David Hume but many of his other predecessors and contemporaries, such as Stoics and Epicureans, Pufendorf and Wolff, Hutcheson, Kames, and Smith, are also explored.

Author : Robert Paul Wolff
Publisher : Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B4243829

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Kant by Robert Paul Wolff Pdf

“This volume’s twenty-one essays present a spectrum of contemporary understandings and interpretations of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. In the three general areas of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, his ethical theory, and his aesthetics, various particular aspects of Kant’s philosophy are examined in depth. Connecting papers discuss his concept of synthetic and analytic and debate the meaning of the categorical imperative. A wide range of post-war scholarship is represented: all of the papers have been written since 1945, and three appear in this volume for the first time. No philosopher has had a greater influence on contemporary thought than Kant; his influence and the place of his ideas in contemporary philosophical argument are evidenced and illuminated in these essays.”- Publisher

Author : Mark Timmons,Sorin Baiasu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199875368

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Kant on Practical Justification by Mark Timmons,Sorin Baiasu Pdf

This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kant's justification of norms, a crucial but neglected theme in Kantian practical philosophy. The essays engage with the view that a successful account of justification of normative claims has to be non-metaphysical and go on to pursue further implications in ethics, legal and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191569265

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Kant's System of Nature and Freedom by Paul Guyer Pdf

The concept of systematicity is central to Immanuel Kant's conception of scientific knowledge and to his practical philosophy. But Kant also held that we must be able to unite the separate systems of nature and freedom into a single system: on the one hand, morality itself requires that we be able to see its commands and goals as realizable within nature, while on the other hand our experience of nature itself leads us to see it as a system with the goal of human moral development. The essays in this volume, including two published here for the first time, explore various aspects of Kant's conception of the system of nature, the system of freedom, and the system of nature and freedom. The essays in the first part explore the systematicity of concepts and laws as the ultimate goal of natural science, consider the implications of Kant's account of our experience of organisms for the goal of the unity of science, and examine Kant's attempts to prove that the existence of an ether is a necessary condition for a physical system of nature. The essays in the second part explore Kant's view that morality requires a systematic union of persons as ends in themselves and of the ends that persons set for themselves, and examine the system of duties and obligations necessary to realize such a systematic union of persons and their ends. These essays thus examine both the general foundations of Kant's moral philosophy and his final account of the duties of right or justice and of ethics or virtue in his late work, the Metaphysics of Morals. The essays in the third part examine Kant's attempt, in the last of his three great critiques, the Critique of the Power of Judgment., to unify the systems of nature and freedom through a radical transformation of traditional teleology as a theory of the creation of organic nature into an account of our experience of organic nature and of nature as a whole.

Author : Bernard D. den Ouden,Marcia Moen
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015012912930

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New Essays on Kant by Bernard D. den Ouden,Marcia Moen Pdf

The essays in this volume represent some of the most recent writings and reflections on Kant and Kantian problematics. Many contributors rank among the most widely read and recognized scholars of Kantian literature, but this volume also includes essays by younger scholars who will be part of a new generation of Kantian inquiry. New Essays on Kant is a clear example of the interrelationship of the finest textual analysis with sound, rigorous reasoning. Many of the articles are written in view of each other, i.e., by philosophers who have developed their interpretations in reaction to each other's research and reading of Kant. Others deal with Kant's predecessors, or with the Kantian legacy and consider, e.g., elements in the philosophy of Hegel that have not been sufficiently recognized for their Kantian character.