Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that Can Qualify as a Science
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780875480572
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Immanuel Kant
Author: Will Dudley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1317491998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His transcendental idealism claims to overcome the skepticism of David Hume, resolve the impasse between empiricism and rationalism, and establish the reality of human freedom and moral agency. A thorough understanding of Kant is indispensable to any philosopher today. The significance of Kant's thought is matched by its complexity. His revolutionary ideas are systematically interconnected and he presents them using a forbidding technical vocabulary. A careful investigation of the key concepts that structure Kant's work is essential to the comprehension of his philosophical project. This book provides an accessible introduction to Kant by explaining each of the key concepts of his philosophy. The book is organized into three parts, which correspond to the main areas of Kant's transcendental idealism: Theoretical Philosophy; Practical Philosophy; and, Aesthetics, Teleology, and Religion. Each chapter presents an overview of a particular topic, while the whole provides a clear and comprehensive account of Kant's philosophical system.
Unnecessary Evil
Author: Sharon Anderson-Gold
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000-11-02
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0791491331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo philosopher has been more committed to the idea of the moral progress of humanity than Immanuel Kant. But is this idea of the moral advancement of the species compatible with the individualist basis of Kantian ethics? Do individuals have obligations to contribute toward the welfare of future generations? Here, Sharon Anderson-Gold affirms the compatibility of Immanuel Kant's philosophy of history and ethics by reversing the individualistic reading of the nature of virtue and vice. Arguing that Kant's definition of radical evil as a characteristic of the social condition of humanity makes virtue a collective task, she concludes that Kant's views on the moral progress of the species are essential to a proper appreciation of the collective character of moral goals and the social context of both virtue and vice. The author also expands the role of reflective judgment in the development of a cosmopolitan discourse specifying duties supporting international institutions, human rights and global economic justice. She argues that reflective judgments contain both phenomenological and normative components, making a moral evaluation of social institutions possible, thereby providing an orientation or guide for individual action.
Kant's Theory of Conscience
Author: Samuel Kahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1108682073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe main body of this Element, about Kant's theory of conscience, is divided into two sections. The first focuses on exegesis of Kant's ethics. One of the overarching theses of this section of the Element is that, although many of Kant's claims about conscience are prima facie inconsistent, a close examination of context generally can dissolve apparent contradictions. The second section of the Element focuses on philosophical issues in Kantian ethics. One of the overarching theses of this section of the Element is that many positions traditionally associated with Kantian ethics, including the denial of moral luck, the nonaccidental rightness condition, and the guise of the objectively good, are at variance with Kant's ethics.
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Author: Richard Kennington
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2018-03-02
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0813230926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection devoted to mark the bicentennial of the publication of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
The Philosophy of Law
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher:
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant and the Philosophy of Mind
Author: Anil Gomes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0198724950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourteen original essays in this volume explore Kant's writings on the mind, covering such topics as intuition, imagination, inner sense, self-consciousness, and the will. These are central to any understanding of Kant's critical philosophy and of continuing relevance to contemporary debates.
Kant on the Rationality of Morality
Author: Paul Guyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108540406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant claims that the fundamental principle of morality is given by pure reason itself. Many have interpreted Kant to derive this principle from a conception of pure practical reason (as opposed to merely prudential reasoning about the most effective means to empirically given ends). But Kant maintained that there is only one faculty of reason, although with both theoretical and practical applications. This Element shows how Kant attempted to derive the fundamental principle and goal of morality from the general principles of reason as such, defined by the principles of non-contradiction and sufficient reason and the ideal of systematicity.
Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-26
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521599641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.
Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
Author: Robert Hanna
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2001-01-04
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0191544043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them. The rise of analytic philosophy decisively marked the end of the hundred-year dominance of Kant's philosophy in Europe. But Hanna shows that the analytic tradition also emerged from Kant's philosophy in the sense that its members were able to define and legitimate their ideas only by means of an intensive, extended engagement with, and a partial or complete rejection of, the Critical Philosophy. Hanna's book therefore comprises both an interpretative study of Kant's massive and seminal Critique of Pure Reason, and a critical essay on the historical foundations of analytic philosophy from Frege to Quine. Hanna considers Kant's key doctrines in the Critique in the light of their reception and transmission by the leading figures of the analytic tradition—Frege, Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine. But this is not just a study in the history of philosophy, for out of this emerges Hanna's original approach to two much-contested theories that remain at the heart of contemporary philosophy. Hanna puts forward a new 'cognitive-semantic' interpretation of transcendental idealism, and a vigorous defence of Kant's theory of analytic and synthetic necessary truth. These will make Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy compelling reading not just for specialists in the history of philosophy, but for all who are interested in these fundamental philosophical issues.
