Essays on Kant / Henry E. Allison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Henry E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages)

Other Title:

Kant

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This volume presents 17 essays by one of the world's leading scholars on Kant. Henry E. Allison explores the nature of transcendental idealism, freedom of the will and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. He places Kant's views in their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance to present day philosophers.

Contents:

Commentary on section nine of the Antinomy of pure reason

Where have all the categories gone? : reflections on Longuenesse's reading of Kant's transcendental deduction

Kant and the two dogmas of rationalism

Transcendental realism, empirical realism, and transcendental idealism

We can act only under the idea of freedom

On the very idea of a propensity to evil

Kant's practical justification of freedom

The singleness of the categorical imperative

Kant on freedom of the will

Is the Critique of judgment "post-critical"?

Reflective judgment and the application of logic to nature : Kant's deduction of the principle of purposiveness as an answer to Hume

The Critique of judgment as a "true apology" for Leibniz

Kant's antinomy of teleological judgment

The gulf between nature and freedom and nature's guarantee of perpetual peace

Kant's conception of Aufklärung

Teleology and history in Kant : the critical foundations of Kant's philosophy of history

Reason, revelation, and history in Lessing and Kant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-174116-7

0-19-964703-8

OCLC:

807061312