The Cambridge companion to Kant / edited by Paul Guyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guyer, Paul, 1948- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason (1781) shook the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic principles of the natural science are imposed on reality by human sensibility and understanding, and thus that human beings are also free to impose their own free and rational agency on the world. This 1992 volume is the only systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant's writings available, and the first major overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An internationally recognised team of Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion.

Contents:

Introduction : the starry heavens and the moral law / Paul Guyer

Kant's intellectual development : 1746-1781 / Frederick C. Beiser

The transcendental aesthetic / Charles Parsons

Functions of thought and the synthesis of intuitions / J. Michael Young

The transcendental deduction of the categories / Paul Guyer

Causal laws and the foundations of natural science / Michael Friedman

Empirical, rational, and transcendental psychology : psychology as science and as philosophy / Gary Hatfield

Reason and the practice of science / Thomas E. Wartenberg

The critique of metaphysics : Kant and traditional ontology / Karl Ameriks

Vindicating reason / Onora O'Neill

Autonomy, obligation, and virtue : an overview of Kant's moral philosophy / J.B. Schneewind.

Politics, freedom, and order : Kant's political philosophy / Wolfgang Kersting

Taste, sublimity, and genius : the aesthetics of nature and art / Eva Schaper

Rational theology, moral faith, and religion / Allen W. Wood

The first twenty years of critique : the Spinoza connection / George Di Giovanni.

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9781139000536 (ebook)

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