Leibniz and Kant / edited by Brandon C. Look.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Look, Brandon, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Philosophy, German--17th century.

Philosophy, German.

Philosophy, German--18th century.

Philosophy, German--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 388 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Leibniz and Kant were the most important figures in German philosophy from the late 17th to the early 19th century. This volume examines the relationships between their philosophies, illuminating fundamental questions of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical theology, as well as assessing Kant's understanding of his philosophical predecessor.

Contents:

Cover

Leibniz and Kant

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

1: Kant's Leibniz: A Historical and Philosophical Study

1 Introduction

2 Leibniz's Philosophy: The Unfolding of a System

3 The Origins of the "Leibniz-Wolffian Philosophy"

4 The Philosophical Scene in Mid-century Germany

5 Kant as a Reader of Leibniz

6 Conclusion

2: How Kant was Never a Wolffian, or Estimating Forces to Enforce Influxus Physicus

1 The Two Camps of Pietism and Wolffianism

2 What Were the Issues Lutheran Theologians and Euler Had with Wolffianism?

3 The Project of Kant's Estimation of Forces

4 Contemporary Judgment of Kant's Book

3: Breaking with Rationalism: Kant, Crusius, and the Priority of Existence

1 Crusius on Existence and Essence

2 The Pre-CriticalKant

2.1 Propositions IV through VIII of the New Elucidation

2.2 Kant versus Wolff and Crusius

2.3 Existence in The Only Possible Argument

3 Crusius's Influence on Kant's Break with Rationalism

4 Kant's Break with Rationalism in the Critical Period

4: Leibniz on the Ideality of Space

1 Relations as Ideal

2 Order as a Species of Relation

3 Space as an Order of Coexistence

4 Space, Situs, and Geometry

5 Empirical Knowledge and the Ideality of Space: A Kantian Coda

5: Leibniz and the Transcendental Deduction

1 Cosmology and the Goal of the Transcendental Deduction

2 Kant's Early Metaphysics: Leibniz and the Right and Wrong Ways of Doing Cosmology

3 Some of the Ways Kant Adapted and Repackaged the Lessons He Learned from Leibniz

4 Conclusion

6: Bodies, Matter, Monads, and Things in Themselves

2 Preliminaries: Idealism, Essence, and Existence

3 Rutherford and Adams on Leibniz

4 Kant.

7: Kant on the (Alleged) Leibnizian Misconception of the Difference between Sensible and Intellectual Representations

2 The Misconception Objection Explained

2 The Significance of the Misconception

3 Leibniz on Confused Perceptions

4 Could We Learn Something about Monads by Experience?

8: Kant's Amphiboly as Critique of Leibniz

1 Debatable Claims about How Space and Time Determine Objects

2 Monads and the Constitution of Matter

3 Space and the Intellectualization of Appearances

9: The Teleologies of Leibniz and Kant: So Close Yet So Far Apart

1 "The Critique of Pure Reason Might Well Be the True Apology for Leibniz"

2 Leibniz and Kant on Mechanical and Teleological Explanation

3 "The Highest Level of Virtue and Goodness Possible"

10: Kant's Theory of Divine and Secondary Causation

1 Creation, Conservation, and Secondary Causation

2 Kant's Early Theory of Divine Action:Conservation or Concurrence?

3 Supernatural Action in Kant's Early Philosophy

4 Mere Conservationism in the Critical Philosophy

5 Conclusion

11: The Development of Kant's Conception of Divine Freedom

1 Thinking of a Holy Will

2 The Blind Mechanism Objection

3 God, All-Sufficiency,and the Problem of the Divine Will

4 Kant's Positive Model of the Divine Will

5 Human Freedom, the Problem of Dependence, and Alternate Possibilities

12: Leibniz and Kant on Empirical Miracles: Rationalism, Freedom, and the Laws

2 Miracles, Wonders, Signs

3 Leibniz

3.1 Five Miracle Concepts

3.1.1 First Rank

3.1.2 Comparative

3.1.3 Beyond Nature's Power, But Still Within Nature

3.1.4 Contrary to the "Subordinate Maxims"

3.1.5 Extraordinary Concurrence

3.2 Nature vs. Essence: Three Strategies

3.2.1 Wholly Passive Power

3.2.2 Degrees of Active and Passive Power.

3.2.3 Nature and Essence Collapsed?

3.3 Summary

4 Kant

4.1 Kant on First Rank and Comparative

4.2 Kant on Empirical Miracles: Textual Issues

4.3 Kant on Empirical Miracles: Philosophical Issues

4.4 Kant's Leibnizean Model of Miracles, and How it May Improve on Leibniz's Own

4.4 Maxims of Judgment

5 Conclusion: Can We Perform Empirical Miracles?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-373) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-265085-8

0-19-191919-5

0-19-265084-X