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Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521184359
A comprehensive account of Kant's theory of freedom and his moral anthropology.
Author : Luigi Filieri,Sofie Møller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000936025
The essays in this volume provide new readings of Kant’s account of human nature. Despite the relevance of human nature to Kant’s philosophy, little attention has been paid to the fact that the question about human nature originally pertains to pure reason. The chapters in this volume show that Kant’s point is not to state once and for all what the human being actually is, but to unite pure reason’s efforts within a unitary teleological perspective. The question about human nature is the cornerstone of reason’s unity in its different activities and domains. Kant’s question about human nature goes beyond our empirical inquiries to show that the notion of humanity represents the point of convergence and unity of pure reason’s most fundamental interests. Kant on Freedom and Human Nature will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Kant’s philosophy.
Author : Robert B. Louden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195347760
The second part of Kant's ethics was described by Kant as applied moral philosophy or ethics applied to the human being. Kant's Impure Ethics critically examines this second part and assesses its value and nature in great detail.
Author : G. Felicitas Munzel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226551342
Currently fashionable among critics of enlightenment thought is the charge that Kant's ethics fails to provide an adequate account of character and its formation in moral and political life. G. Felicitas Munzel challenges this reading of Kant's thought, claiming not only that Kant has a very rich notion of moral character, but also that it is a conception of systematic importance for his thought, linking the formal moral with the critical, aesthetic, anthropological, and biological aspects of his philosophy. The first book to focus on character formation in Kant's moral philosophy, it builds on important recent work on Kant's aesthetics and anthropology, and brings these to bear on moral issues. Munzel traces Kant's multifaceted definition of character through the broad range of his writings, and then explores the structure of character, its actual exercise in the world, and its cultivation. An outstanding work of original textual analysis and interpretation, Kant's Conception of Moral Character is a major contribution to Kant studies and moral philosophy in general.
Author : F.P. van de Pitte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401175326
This work is the product of several years of intense study of the various aspects of Kant's work, and the attempt to provide insights for students both with respect to the details of the Kantian system, and into the development and implications of the system as a whole. During that time many individuals have contributed to its ultimate formulation, and I would like to express my appreciation at least to the more generous contributors. For a careful reading of the manuscript in its earlier forms, and suggestions which helped in many ways to improve the work and to crystalize its thesis, I would like to thank Professors Wilbur Long, A. C. Ewing, and Richard Bosley. For their interest and encouragement in the later stages of the project, I must thank Professor Lewis White Beck, and the many students who have taken my Kant seminar at the University of Alberta, especially Mr. Dieter Hartmetz. And finally, 1 acknowledge with pleasure my longstanding debt to Professor William H. Werkmeister for his years of critical advice and encouragement. Perhaps only Kant and my wife have contributed more to my philosophic development. Acknowledgment must also be made of the permission kindly granted by various publishers for the use of material from the following works under their copyright. Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, translated by Lewis White Beck (copyright 1956, by The Liberal Arts Press, Inc.
Author : Brian Jacobs,Patrick Kain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139441452
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 : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521771610
The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.
Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521387086
An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers critical literature on the subject.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521654211
Kant is often portrayed as the author of a rigid system of ethics in which adherence to a formal and universal principle of morality - the famous categorical imperative - is an end itself, and any concern for human goals and happiness a strictly secondary and subordinate matter. Such a theory seems to suit perfectly rational beings but not human beings. The twelve essays in this collection by one of the world's preeminent Kant scholars argue for a radically different account of Kant's ethics. They explore an interpretation of the moral philosophy according to which freedom is the fundamental end of human action, but an end that can only be preserved and promoted by adherence to moral law. By radically revising the traditional interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy and by showing how Kant's coherent liberalism can guide us in current debates, Paul Guyer will find an audience across moral and political philosophy, intellectual history, and political science.
Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107145115
Traces the development of Kant's views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401020183
In a footnote to the Preface of his A nthropology Kant gives, if not altogether accurately, the historical background for the publication of this work. The A nthropology is, in effect, his manual for a course of lectures which he gave "for some thirty years," in the winter semesters at the University of Konigsberg. In 1797, when old age forced him to discontinue the course and he felt that his manual would not compete with the lectures themselves, he decided to let the work be published (Ak. VII, 354, 356). The reader will readily see why these lectures were, as Kant says, popular ones, attended by people from other walks of life. In both content and style the Anthropology is far removed from the rigors of the Critiques. Yet the Anthropology presents its own special problems. The student of Kant who struggles through the Critique of Pure Reason is undoubtedly left in some perplexity regarding specific points in it, but he is quite clear as to what Kant is attempting to do in the work. On finishing the Anthropology he may well find himself in just the opposite situation. While its discussions of the functioning of man's various powers are, on the whole, quite lucid and even entertaining, the purpose of the work remains somewhat vague. The questions: what is pragmatic anthropology? what is its relation to Kant's more strictly philosophical works? have not been answered satisfactorily.
Author : David G. Sussman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0815339844
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Alix Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316194379
Kant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant's critical philosophy. They explore a wide range of topics, including Kant's account of cognition, the senses, self-knowledge, freedom, passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism. The volume will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship as well as beyond, and will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Kant, the history of anthropology, the philosophy of psychology and the social sciences.
Author : Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb,James Krueger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110220032
Recent interpreters of Kant's philosophy and contemporary advocates of broadly neo-Kantian views generally minimize the importance of Kant's metaphysical beliefs. This volume re-evaluates these minimizing approaches with particular reference to Kant's moral philosophy, exploring Kantian positions on such topics as moral corruption, the relation between God and ethics, the metaphysics of human freedom, and the possibility of knowledge of God. This volume is the first to place these topics within the context of the Critical philosophy as a whole, encouraging not only a more metaphysical, but also a more holistic reading of Kant.
Author : Dieter Schönecker,Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674967366
A defining work of moral philosophy, Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been influential to an extent far beyond what its modest length (roughly 75 pages) might suggest. It is also a famously difficult work, concerned with propounding universal principles rather than answering practical questions. As even professional philosophers will admit, first-time readers are not alone in finding some of its arguments perplexing. Offering an introduction that is accessible to students and relevant to specialized scholars, Dieter Schönecker and Allen Wood make luminously clear the ways the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals forms the basis of our modern moral outlook: that all human beings have equal dignity as ends in themselves; that every rational being is a self-governing agent whose morality freely derives from his or her own will; and that all rational beings constitute an ideal community, bound only by the moral laws they have agreed upon. Schönecker and Wood explain key Kantian concepts of duty, the good will, and moral worth, as well as the propositions Kant uses to derive his conception of the moral law. How the law relates to freedom, and the significance of the free will within Kant’s overall philosophy are rigorously interrogated. Where differing interpretations of Kant’s claims are possible, the authors provide alternative options, giving arguments for each. This critical introduction will help readers of the Groundwork gain an informed understanding of Kant’s challenging but central philosophical work.
