Essays On Kant And Hume

Author : Lewis White Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783727860

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Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691151175

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Knowledge, Reason, and Taste by Paul Guyer Pdf

Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.

Author : Lewis White Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783727860

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Author : Annette Baier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0674587162

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Moral Prejudices by Annette Baier Pdf

Annette Baier delivers an appeal for our fundamental moral notions to be governed not by rules and codes but by trust: a moral prejudice. Along the way, she gives us the best feminist philosophy there is. Baier's topics range from violence to love, from cruelty to justice, and are linked by a preoccupation with vulnerability and inequality of vulnerability, with trust and distrust of equals, with cooperation and isolation. Throughout, she is concerned with the theme of women's roles. In this provocative exploration of the implications of trusting to trust rather than proscription, Baier interweaves anecdote and autobiography with readings of Hume and Kant to produce an entertaining, challenging, and highly readable book.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781605200576

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Essays by David Hume Pdf

As part of the tried and true model of informal essay writing, Hume began publishing his Essays: Moral, Political and Literary in 1741. The majority of these finely honed treatises fall into three distinct areas: political theory, economic theory and aesthetic theory. Interestingly, Hume's was motivated to produce a collection of informal essays given the poor public reception of his more formally written Treatise of Human Nature in 1739. He hoped that his work would be interesting not only to the educated man, but to the common man as well. He passionately argues that essays provide a forum for discussing his philosophy of "common life." DAVID HUME (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived in France from 1734 to 1737, where he finished his first philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40). His additional philosophical works include An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UCSD:31822008453847

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Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521568331

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Kant and the Experience of Freedom by Paul Guyer Pdf

This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis of the most rigorous principle of duty. Kant's thought is placed in a rich historical context including such figures as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kames, as well as Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Schiller, and Hegel. Other topics treated are the sublime, natural versus artistic beauty, genius and art history, and duty and inclination. These essays extend and enrich the account of Kant's aesthetics in the author's earlier book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979).

Author : R.M. Dancy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 195 pages
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Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401581790

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Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister by R.M. Dancy Pdf

On 5-6 April 1991, there was a conference on Kant at Florida State University; this volume collects the (revised versions ofthe) papers presented on that occasion. The occasion was, give or take a few months, the 90th birthday of Professor (Emeritus) William H. Werkmeister. Werkie (as all his friends call hirn) hirnself gave the final paper at this conference. Hence the inclusion of a paper by Werkie in a volume honoring hirn. Although he is primarily known for his expertise in the field of Kantian philosophy, Werkie's published scholarship has spanned a wide range of subjects for more than fifty years: his first book, A Philosophy of Science, appeared in 1940; today, among other endeavors, he is at work on a book on Heidegger, and there have been other books and more than a hundred papers in between. Readers interested in fuller biographical information about Werkie should consult the first three papers in the 1 Festschrift celebrating his eightieth hirthday in 1981. Since then, Werkie's activities have continued without much letup. He no longer teaches regularly, hut he gives frequent colloquia in the Philosophy Department here, participates in conferences on Kant around the world, and continues to puhlish, particularly on Kant and Nicolai Hartmann. Wayne McEvilly, 'The Teacher Remembered'; Charles H.

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Beryl Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135176525

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Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus by Beryl Logan Pdf

This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problems raised by Kant. Starting with the Carus translation of Kant's work, the edition offers a substantive new introduction, six papers never before published together and a comprehensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose philosophical investigations, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's 'dogmatic slumber'.

Author : Patrick Rysiew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317509561

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New Essays on Thomas Reid by Patrick Rysiew Pdf

Thomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and a central figure in the Scottish School of Common Sense. Until recently, his work has been largely neglected, and often misunderstood. Like Kant, Reid cited Hume’s Treatise as the main spur to his own philosophical work. In Reid’s case, this led him to challenge ‘the theory of ideas’, which he saw as the cornerstone of Hume’s (and many other philosophers’) theories. For those familiar with Reid’s work, it is clear that its significance extends well beyond his challenging the theory of ideas. The variety of topics which this book covers attests to the richness and variety of Reid’s philosophical contributions, and the persisting relevance of his work to contemporary philosophical debates. The work included in this book, by leading figures in Reid scholarship, deals with aspects of Reid’s views on topics ranging from perception, to epistemology, to ethics and meta-ethics, through to language, mind, and metaphysics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
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 : Bernard D. den Ouden,Marcia Moen
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551118048

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Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects by David Hume Pdf

This is the first edition in over a century to present David Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dissertation on the Passions, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Natural History of Religion in the format he intended: collected together in a single volume. Hume has suffered a fate unusual among great philosophers. His principal philosophical work is no longer published in the form in which he intended it to be read. It has been divided into separate parts, only some of which continue to be published. This volume repairs that neglect by presenting the four pieces that Hume in later life desired to "alone be regarded as containing [his] philosophical sentiments and principles" in the format he preferred, as a single volume with an organization that parallels that of his early Treatise of Human Nature. This edition’s introduction comments on the historical origins and evolution of the four parts and draws attention to how they mutually inform and support one another. The text is based on the first (1758) edition of Hume’s Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. Notes advise the reader of the changes made in the final (1777) edition. Excerpts from the work of some of Hume’s most important contemporary critics are included as appendices. Hume’s abundant references to ancient historians, geographers, poets, and philosophers—many of them now quite obscure—are rendered accessible in this volume through extensive textual notes and a bibliography of online sources.

Author : Houston Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0671485032

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Essays in Philosophy by Houston Peterson Pdf

With essays by David Hume, Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel kant, William Blake, Jeremy Bentham, Richard Whately, John Henry Newman, Karl Marx, James Whistler, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, etc.