Kant S Practical Philosophy Reconsidered

Author : Y. Yovel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
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Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401720168

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Kant’s Practical Philosophy Reconsidered by Y. Yovel Pdf

That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom. The essays in this volume attempt to reassess some crucial questions in Kant's practical philosophy both by sketching the lines for new systematic interpretations and by examining how Kantian themes apply to contemporary moral concerns. In the previous decade, when Kant was primarily read as an answer to utilitarianism, emphasis was mainly laid on the fundamentals of his moral theory, stressing such concepts as universalization, duty for its own sake, personal autonomy, unconditional imperatives or humanity as end-in-itself, using the Groundwork and its broader (ifless popular) systematic parallel, the Analytic of the Critique of Practical Reason, as main sources. In recent years, however, emphasis has shifted and become diversified. The present essays reflect this diversification in discussing the extension of Kantian ethics in the domains of law, justice, politics and moral history, and also in considering such meta-philosophical questions as the relation between the various "inter ests of reason" (as Kant calls them), above all between knowledge and moral practice. The papers were first presented at the Seventh Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter, held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in December 1986. The Jerusalem Philosophical Encounters are a series of bi-annual international symposia, in which philosophers of different backgrounds meet in Jerusalem to discuss a common issue. Organized by the S. H.

Author : Onora O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
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Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521388163

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Constructions of Reason by Onora O'Neill Pdf

This book traces the alleged incoherences to attempts to assimilate Kant's ethical writings to modern conceptions of rationality, actions and rights.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 706 pages
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Release : 1999-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521654084

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Practical Philosophy by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Review of Schulz's Attempt at an introduction to a doctrine of morals for all human beings regardless of different religions -- An answer to the question, what is enlightenment? -- On the wrongfulness of unauthorized publication of books -- Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals -- Review of Gottlieb Hufeland's Essay on the principle of natural right -- Kraus' review of Ulrich's Eleutheriology -- Critique of practical reason -- On the common saying, that may be correct in theory, but it is of no use in practice -- Toward perpetual peace -- The metaphysics of morals -- On a supposed right to lie from philanthropy -- On turning out books.

Author : G. Banham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
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Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230501188

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Kant’s Practical Philosophy by G. Banham Pdf

This work presents Kant as a vital revolutionary thinker, showing that his Practical Philosophy has been marred by views that it is formalist and centred on categorical imperative. Discussing his commitment to the notion of rational religion and his treatment of evil, this important study provides a vivid account of Kant's concerns.

Author : James A. Clarke,Gabriel Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
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Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108497725

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Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel by James A. Clarke,Gabriel Gottlieb Pdf

This volume explores the development of post-Kantian practical philosophy through the themes of freedom, right, and revolution.

Author : Kristi E. Sweet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
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Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107037236

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Kant on Practical Life by Kristi E. Sweet Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's practical philosophy that highlights the unity across its disparate themes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:437050854

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Kant's Practical Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
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Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441115287

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Kant on Spontaneity by Marco Sgarbi Pdf

The concept of spontaneity is central to Kant's philosophy, yet Kant himself never dealt with it explicitly. Instead it was presented as an insoluble problem concerning human reason. The ambiguity surrounding his approach to this problem is surprising when one considers that he was a philosopher who based his theoretical programme on the critique of the faculties of knowledge, feeling and desire. However, this ambiguity seems to have avoided up to now any possible critique. This highly original book presents the first full-length study of the problem of spontaneity in Kant. Marco Sgarbi demonstrates that spontaneity is a crucial concept in relation to every aspect of Kant's thought. He begins by reconstructing the history of the concept of spontaneity in the German Enlightenment prior to Kant and goes on to define knowing, thinking, acting and feeling as spontaneous activities of the mind that in turn determine Kant's logic, ethics and aesthetics. Ultimately Sgarbi shows that the notion of spontaneity is key to understanding both Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy.

Author : Mark Timmons,Sorin Baiasu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
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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 : Immanuel Kant,Werner S. Pluhar
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 346 pages
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Release : 2002-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872206173

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Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant,Werner S. Pluhar Pdf

With this volume, Werner Pluhar completes his work on Kant's three Critiques, an accomplishment unique among English language translators of Kant. At once accurate, fluent, and accessible, Pluhar's rendition of the Critique of Practical Reason meets the standards set in his widely respected translations of the Critique of Judgement (1987) and the Critique of Pure Reason (1996).

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 186 pages
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Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783986474508

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The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

The Critique of Practical Reason Immanuel Kant - The second of Kant's three critiques, Critique of Practical Reason forms the center of Kantian philosophy; published in 1788, it is bookended by his Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Judgement. With this work Kant establishes his role as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity; he approaches his proof by presenting positive affirmation of the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. The philosopher offers an argument concerning the summum bonum of life: people should not simply search after happiness, but follow the moral law and seek to become worthy of the happiness that God can bestow.This Critique comprises three sections: the Analytic, the Dialectic, and the Doctrine of Method. The Analytic defines the ultimate moral principle, the categorical imperative, and argues that to obey it is to exercise a freedom. The Dialectic make the assumption that immortality and God exist, arguing that pure practical reason falls into error when it expects perfection in this world; we should anticipate finding perfection in the next world, with God's help. The final section, the Doctrine of Method, offers suggestions in educating people in the use of pure practical reason.A seminal text in the history of moral philosophy, this volume offers the most complete statement of Kant's theory of free will and a full development of his practical metaphysics.

Author : Immanuel Kant,Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
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Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486434452

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Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant,Thomas Kingsmill Abbott Pdf

The second of Kant’s three critiques, Critique of Practical Reason forms the center of Kantian philosophy. Kant establishes his role as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity in this work, published in 1788, and he approaches his proof by presenting positive affirmations of the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. The philosopher offers an argument concerning the summum bonum of life: people should not simply search after happiness, but follow the moral law and seek to become worthy of the happiness that God can bestow. This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy offers the most complete statement of Kant’s theory of free will and a full development of his practical metaphysics.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788726627466

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Kant’s Foundations of Ethics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

These works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant’s ethical and political world-view. "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) and "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) challenge all free people to think about the requirements for self-determination both in our individual lives and in our public and private institutions. Kant’s "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" is dedicated to the proposition that all people can know what they need to know to be honest, good, wise, and virtuous. The purpose of Kant’s moral philosophy is to help us become aware of the principles that are already contained within us. Innocence and dependence must be replaced with wisdom and good will if we are to avoid being vulnerable and misguided. According to Kant, freedom of thought leads naturally to freedom of action. When that happens, governments begin to treat human beings, not as machines, but as persons with dignity. Immanuel Kant begins "Toward Lasting Peace" by contrasting the realism of practical politicians with the high-minded theories of philosophers who "dream their sweet dreams." His opening line provides a grim reminder that the only alternative to finding a way to avoid the war of each against all is the lasting peace of the graveyard. The advent of total war and the development of nuclear weapons in the twentieth century give Kant’s reflections an urgency he could not have anticipated. Kant published this work in 1795, during the aftermath of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. The high hopes of the European Enlightenment had been dampened by the Reign of Terror in which tens of thousands of people died, and the perpetual cycle of war and temporary armistice seemed to be inescapable. Kant’s essay is best known as an early articulation of the idea of a league of nations that could bring "an end to all hostilities." Today The United Nations continues to pursue that dream, but lasting peace still seems to be wishful thinking. No modern philosopher is more important than Immanuel Kant. His works extend from epistemology and metaphysics to aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. His "Critical Philosophy" is developed in three major works: "The Critique of Pure Reason," "The Critique of Practical Reason," and "The Critique of Judgment." A German speaker, he was born in Prussia, an area that is now part of Poland. He never travelled more than 50 miles from his home in Königsberg, but his influence has since pervaded every aspect of Western culture.

Author : Nathan Rotenstreich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
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Release : 1979-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789024721122

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Practice and Realization by Nathan Rotenstreich Pdf

The present book is an exp]oration of some basic issues of Kant's moral phi losophy. The point of departure is the concept offreedom and the self-legisla tion of reason. Since self-Iegislation is expressed in the sphere of practice or morality, it is meant to overcome some of the vulnerable aspects of Kant's theoretical philosophy, namely that which Kant himself pointed to and called the 'lucky chance,' in so far as the application of reason to sensuous data is concerned. The book attempts to show that Kant's practical or moral philosophy faces questions which are parallel to those he faced in the sphere ofhis theore tical philosophy. The problematic situation of realization of practice is parallel to the problematic situation of application of theory. It is in the line of the problems emerging from Kant's practical philosophy that the present book deals with some of Kant's minor writings, or less-known ones, in cluding his writings in the sphere of politics, history and education. The limitations of self-Iegislation - this is the theme of the book. The book is parallel to the author's previous one on Kant: 'Experience and its Systema tization - Studies in Kant" (Nijhoff, 1965, 2nd edition 1973), as well as to: "From Substance to Subject -Studies in Hegel" (Nijhoff, 1974). Jerusalem 1978 ABBREVIATIONS As to the references to Kant's major works, the following procedme will be ob served: Kritik der reinen Vernunft will be quoted as Kr. d. r. V.

Author : Otfried Höffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107451485

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Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy by Otfried Höffe Pdf

This volume brings to English readers the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kant's moral and legal philosophy. Examining Kant's relation to predecessors such as Hutcheson, Wolff, and Baumgarten, it clarifies the central issues in each of Kant's major works in practical philosophy, including The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals. It also examines the relation of Kant's philosophy to politics. Collectively, the essays in this volume provide English readers with a direct view of how leading German philosophers are now regarding Kant's revolutionary practical philosophy, one of the outstanding achievements of German thought.