Imagination in Kant's Critique of practical reason / Bernard Freydberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freydberg, Bernard, 1947-

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Practical reason.

Imagination.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der praktischen Vernunft.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With particular focus on imagination, Bernard Freydberg presents a close reading of Kant's second critique, The Critique of Practical Reason. In an interpretation that is daring as well as rigorous, Freydberg reveals imagination as both its central force and the bridge that links Kant's three critiques. Freydberg's reading offers a powerful challenge to the widespread view that Kant's ethics calls for rigid, self-denying obedience. Here, to the contrary, the search for self-fulfillment becomes an enorm

Contents:

Principles of pure practical reason : imagination and moral "derivation"

The concept of an object of pure practical reason : imagination, good and evil, and the typic

The incentives (Triebfeder) of pure practical reason : incentive-creating imagination and moral feeling

Dialectic of pure practical reason in general and imagination

Imagination and the postulates of immortality and God

Imagination and the moral extension of reason

Methodology of pure practical reason : images and ecstasy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-174) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-07259-5

0-253-11158-7

OCLC:

476016245