Author : Kate A. Moran
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813219523
The text draws on a wide range of Immanuel Kant's writings, including his texts on moral and political philosophy and his lectures on ethics, pedagogy, and anthropology. Though the book is grounded in an analysis of Kant's writing, it also puts forward the novel claim that Kant's theory is centrally concerned with the relationships we have in our day-to-day lives.
Author : Sharon Anderson-Gold
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791491331
No 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.
Author : Paul T. Wilford
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812252829
Through a reexamination of Immanuel Kant and his philosophical legacy, this volume explores the philosophic presuppositions of the possibility of progress and our belief in reason's capacity not only to improve the material well-being of humanity but also to promote our true vocation as moral beings.
Author : Dale Jamieson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199251452
The summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The 22 papers are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature.
Author : Pauline Kleingeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139504266
This is the first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, highlighting its moral, political, legal, economic, cultural and psychological aspects. Contrasting Kant's views with those of his German contemporaries and relating them to current debates, Pauline Kleingeld sheds new light on texts that have been hitherto neglected or underestimated. In clear and carefully argued discussions, she shows that Kant's philosophical cosmopolitanism underwent a radical transformation in the mid 1790s and that the resulting theory is philosophically stronger than is usually thought. Using the work of figures such as Fichte, Cloots, Forster, Hegewisch, Wieland and Novalis, Kleingeld analyses Kant's arguments regarding the relationship between cosmopolitanism and patriotism, the importance of states, the ideal of an international federation, cultural pluralism, race, global economic justice and the psychological feasibility of the cosmopolitan ideal. In doing so, she reveals a broad spectrum of positions in cosmopolitan theory that are relevant to current discussions of cosmopolitanism.
Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521184355
A comprehensive account of Kant's theory of freedom and his moral anthropology.
Author : Ido Geiger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804754248
It is well known that Hegel conceives of history as the gradual process of rational thought and of forms of political life. But he is usually thought to place himself at the end of this process. This book argues that an essential part of Hegel's historical-political thinking has escaped the notice of its interpreters.
Author : Stefano Bacin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107182859
A thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.
Author : Gary Banham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472586794
Immanuel Kant is widely considered to be the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. His philosophy is extraordinarily wide-ranging and his influence has been pervasive throughout eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century thought, in particular in the work of the German Idealists, and also in both Analytic and Continental philosophy today. Now available as a new and expanded edition in paperback, this accessible companion to Kant features more than 100 specially commissioned entries, written by a team of experts in the field, covering every aspect of his philosophy. The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant presents a comprehensive overview of the historical and philosophical context in which Kant wrote and the various features, themes and topics apparent in his thought. It also includes extensive synopses of all his major published works and a survey of the key lines of reception and influence including a new addition on Schopenhauer's reception of Kant. It concludes with a thorough bibliography of English language secondary literature, now expanded for this edition to include all cutting-edge publications in the area. This is an essential and practical research tool for those working in the field of eighteenth-century German philosophy and Kant.
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2024-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192596780
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is a towering figure of modern Western philosophy, someone whose thought continues to exert an influence across all areas of the discipline. His work is characterized by both breadth and unity: he writes powerfully about mind, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, mathematics, natural science, ethics, politics, aesthetics, education, and more. And across those areas, his work is concerned with defending a view of human beings and their place in nature according to which our own reason enables us to discover and uphold the laws of nature and freedomthat is, to think for ourselves. The Oxford Handbook of Kant provides an up-to-date account of recent scholarship on Kant's philosophy, taking in all areas of his writings. It will be essential reading for students and researchers who want to think for themselves about the topics he wrote with such insight. The individual chapters to this Handbook each provide a scholarly analysis and assessment of some aspect of Kant's thought, and the collection ranges across all the areas to which Kant contributed. It collectively presents a picture of where the study of Kant's philosophy finds itself at this point in the twenty-first century.
