Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View

Author: Immanuel Kant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521671651

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Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View essentially reflects the last lectures Kant gave for his annual course in anthropology, which he taught from 1772 until his retirement in 1796. The lectures were published in 1798, with the largest first printing of any of Kant's works. Intended for a broad audience, they reveal not only Kant's unique contribution to the newly emerging discipline of anthropology, but also his desire to offer students a practical view of the world and of humanity's place in it. With its focus on what the human being 'as a free-acting being makes of himself or can and should make of himself,' the Anthropology also offers readers an application of some central elements of Kant's philosophy. This volume offers a new annotated translation of the text by Robert B. Louden, together with an introduction by Manfred Kuehn that explores the context and themes of the lectures.

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's Pragmatic Anthropology
Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology

Author: Holly L. Wilson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2007-06-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0791481298

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The first comprehensive examination in English of Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Philosophical Principles of the History and Systems of Psychology
Philosophical Principles of the History and Systems of Psychology

Author: Frank Scalambrino

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3319747339

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Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology. The book is concisely designed to help readers navigate through the length and complexity found in history of psychology textbooks. From Plato to beyond Post-Modernism, the author examines the choices and commitments made by theorists and practitioners of psychology and discusses the philosophical thinking from which they stem. What kind of science is psychology? Is structure, function, or methodology foremost in determining psychology's subject matter? Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is not the same as the psychoanalyst's view of it, or the existentialist's, so how may contemporary psychology philosophically-sustain both pluralism and incommensurability? This book will be of great value to students and scholars of the history of psychology.

What is the Human Being?
What is the Human Being?

Author: Patrick R. Frierson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0415558441

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Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant's philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant's theories and examines his critics.