Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology
Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

Author: Gualtiero Lorini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-17

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 3319987267

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This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kant’s thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kant’s philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kant’s thought.

Essays on Kant's Anthropology
Essays on Kant's Anthropology

Author: Brian Jacobs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-02-27

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1139441450

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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.

Kant's Lectures on Anthropology
Kant's Lectures on Anthropology

Author: Alix Cohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1107024919

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This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy
Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy

Author: Patrick R. Frierson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-21

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781139442114

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This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's theory of freedom and his moral anthropology. The point of departure is the apparent conflict between three claims to which Kant is committed: that human beings are transcendentally free, that moral anthropology studies the empirical influences on human beings, and that more anthropology is morally relevant. Frierson shows why this conflict is only apparent. He draws on Kant's transcendental idealism and his theory of the will and describes how empirical influences can affect the empirical expression of one's will in a way that is morally significant but still consistent with Kant's concept of freedom. As a work which integrates Kant's anthropology with his philosophy as a whole, this book will be an unusually important source of study for all Kant scholars and advanced students of Kant.

Lectures on Anthropology
Lectures on Anthropology

Author: Immanuel Kant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0521771617

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The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.

Introduction to Kant's Anthropology
Introduction to Kant's Anthropology

Author: Michel Foucault

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008-07-11

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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"In his critical interpretation of Kant's Anthropology, Michel Foucault warns against the dangers of treating psychology as a new metaphysics. Instead, he explores the possibility of studying man empirically as he is affected by time, art and technique, self-perception, and language. If man is both the condition for knowledge and its ultimate object, any empirical knowledge of man is inextricably tied up with language. Far from being a study of self-consciousness, anthropology is a way of questioning the limits of human knowledge and concrete existence." "Long unknown to Foucault readers, this text offers the first outline of what would later become Foucault's own frame of reference within the history of philosophy. Standing at a crossroad of his ouevre, it allows us to look back on Madness and Civilization while it sketches out the relationship between discourse and truth developed in The Order of Things. This "introduction" finally announces what will be considered the most scandalous aspect of Foucault's thought: the death of man, but also the joyous advent of the Ubermensch, the philosopher-artist capable of creating vital values."--BOOK JACKET.

Kant on Reflection and Virtue
Kant on Reflection and Virtue

Author: Melissa Merritt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1108424716

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A new approach to Kant's conception of virtue which grounds it in his innovative account of reflection and cognitive agency.

Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience
Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience

Author: Jeanine Grenberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1107033586

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This book argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from common human experience of the conflict between happiness and morality.