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This volume of new essays explores Kant's views on the laws of nature.
Author : Michela Massimi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107120985
This volume of new essays explores Kant's views on the laws of nature.
Author : Kenneth R. Westphal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191064122
Kenneth R. Westphal presents an original interpretation of Hume's and Kant's moral philosophies, the differences between which are prominent in current philosophical accounts. Westphal argues that focussing on these differences, however, occludes a decisive, shared achievement: a distinctive constructivist method to identify basic moral principles and to justify their strict objectivity, without invoking moral realism nor moral anti-realism or irrealism. Their constructivism is based on Hume's key insight that 'though the laws of justice are artificial, they are not arbitrary'. Arbitrariness in basic moral principles is avoided by starting with fundamental problems of social coördination which concern outward behaviour and physiological needs; basic principles of justice are artificial because solving those problems does not require appeal to moral realism (nor to moral anti-realism). Instead, moral cognitivism is preserved by identifying sufficient justifying reasons, which can be addressed to all parties, for the minimum sufficient legitimate principles and institutions required to provide and protect basic forms of social coördination (including verbal behaviour). Hume first develops this kind of constructivism for basic property rights and for government. Kant greatly refines Hume's construction of justice within his 'metaphysical principles of justice', whilst preserving the core model of Hume's innovative constructivism. Hume's and Kant's constructivism avoids the conventionalist and relativist tendencies latent if not explicit in contemporary forms of moral constructivism.
Author : Eric Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107163919
Provides a unified account of the notion of law - both natural and moral - in Kant's abstract and empirical philosophy.
Author : Michela Massimi
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Natural law
ISBN : 9781108139373
This volume of new essays explores Kant's views on the laws of nature.
Author : Arthur Ripstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674054512
In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; indeed the requirements of justice can be articulated without recourse to views about human inclinations and vulnerabilities. Second, Kant argues for a distinctive moral principle, which restricts the legitimate use of force to the creation of a system of equal freedom. Ripstein’s description of the unity and philosophical plausibility of this dimension of Kant’s thought will be a revelation to political and legal scholars. In addition to providing a clear and coherent statement of the most misunderstood of Kant’s ideas, Ripstein also shows that Kant’s views remain conceptually powerful and morally appealing today. Ripstein defends the idea of equal freedom by examining several substantive areas of law—private rights, constitutional law, police powers, and punishment—and by demonstrating the compelling advantages of the Kantian framework over competing approaches.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0199273464
The governing theme of this volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Kant's System of Nature and Freedom will be essential for anyone working on the history of modern philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.
Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415558441
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.
Author : Hannah Ginsborg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199547971
Why read Kant's Critique of Judgment? For most readers, the importance of the work lies in its contributions to aesthetics and, to a lesser extent, the philosophy of biology. Hannah Ginsborg, by contrast, sees the Critique of Judgment as a central contribution to the understanding of human cognition generally. The fourteen essays collected here advance a common interpretive project: that of bringing out the philosophical significance of the notion of judgment which figures in the third Critique and showing its importance both to Kant's own theoretical philosophy and to contemporary views of human thought and cognition. For us to possess the capacity of judgment, on the interpretation defended here, is for our natural perceptual and imaginative responses to involve a claim to their own normativity with respect to the objects which cause them. It is in virtue of this capacity that we are able not merely to respond discriminatively to objects, as animals do, but to bring objects under concepts. The Critique of Judgment, on this reading, rejects the traditional dichotomy between the natural and the normative: our natural psychological responses to the spatio-temporal objects which affect our senses are both causally determined by those objects, and normatively appropriate to them. The essays in this book aim collectively to develop and illuminate this understanding of judgment in its own right, and to use it to address specific interpretive issues in Kant's aesthetics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of biology; they are also concerned to bring out the relevance of this conception of judgment to contemporary debates regarding concept-acquisition, the content of perception, and skepticism about rules and meaning.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521363942
Brings together work by Kant never before available in English, along with new translations of his most important publications in natural science. The volume is rich in material for the student and the scholar, with extensive linguistic and explanatory notes, editorial introductions and a glossary of key terms.
Author : Konstantin Pollok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107127807
A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious 'synthetic judgments a priori'.