Lectures on Ethics
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-19
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780521788045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLecture notes taken by Kant's students of his university courses in ethics.
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Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-19
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780521788045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLecture notes taken by Kant's students of his university courses in ethics.
Author: Lara Denis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1316194574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.
Author: Alix Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1107024919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.
Author: John Rawls
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0674042565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Published: 2020-07-30
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 8726627469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 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: Stefano Bacin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1107182859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-12-20
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1107354595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extensive texts, Anthropology Friedländer (1772) and Anthropology Mrongovius (1786), are presented here in their entirety, along with selections from all the other lecture transcriptions published in the Academy edition, together with sizeable portions of the Menschenkunde (1781–2), first published in 1831. These lectures show that Kant had a coherent and well-developed empirical theory of human nature bearing on many other aspects of his philosophy, including cognition, moral psychology, politics and philosophy of history.
Author: Bernd Dörflinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3110351536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough they were not written by Kant himself, the transcripts of his lectures constitute an important source for philosophical research today. Some of the contributions presented in this volume discuss the authenticity and significance of these transcripts, for example the status of Kant's lectures on logic and anthropology, while others shed light on the historical formation of specific writings, for instance the texts on the philosophy of religion. The contributions provide new insights into Kant's philosophy, that, if looking at Kant's published writings alone, we would not be able to gain. In a number of cases, a critical analysis of Kant's lectures gives us a better understanding of his published works. Thus his lectures on metaphysics shed new light on his Critique of Pure Reason, while the lecture on natural law is a valuable source for the understanding of his published legal writings.
Author: Robert Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 019872229X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. The topics he explores include value, perfectionism, agency, autonomy, moral motivation, moral scepticism, and obligation, and he consider the influence of Kant's ethics on subsequent thinkers, up to the present day.
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780801493799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Lectures on Philosophical Theology is an indispensable addition to Kant's works in English. It has not been previously translated, and even though it is compiled from lecture notes, it provides information on Kant's views not previously available in English."--Philosophical Books