The Kant dictionary / Lucas Thorpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorpe, Lucas, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury philosophy dictionaries.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Dictionaries.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

The Kant Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Immanuel Kant, one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Kant''s thought. Students will discover a wealth of useful information, analysis and criticism. A-Z entries include clear definitions of all the key terms used in Kant''s writings and detailed synopses of his key works. The Dictionary also includes.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chronology of Kant's Life and Works; Kant's Life and Works; A-Z Dictionary; aesthetic; Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection; Analogies of Experience; analytic/synthetic; analytic method; Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (1784); Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798); Anticipations of Perception; Antinomy of Pure Reason; apodictic; appearances; apperception; a priori/a posteriori; art; autonomy; Axioms of Intuition; Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb (1714-62); beauty; beauty, free; beauty, ideal of; benevolence; beneficence.

Berkeley, George (1685-1753)canon; categorical imperative; categorical judgement; categories, table of; causation; character; cognition; community, category of; concept; Conjectural Beginning of Human History (1786); consequentialism; constitutive principle; constructivism; conversion; Copernican Revolution; cosmological argument; critical Kant; critique; Critique of Judgment (1790); Critique of Practical Reason (1788); Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787); Descartes, René (1596-1650); design, argument from; desire, faculty of; determining judgement; determinism; dialectic.

Disjunctive judgementdogmatism; Dreams of a Spirit-seer elucidated by Dreams of Metaphysics (1766); dualism; duty; emotions; empiricism/empiricists; enthusiasm (schwärmerei); Epicureans; existence; experience; faculty of desire; faculty of judgement; feeling; free will; freedom; genius; God; good will; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785); happiness; highest good (summum bonum); history; holy will; humanity, formula of; Hume, David (1711-76); hypothetical imperative; hypothetical judgement; idea; Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim (1784); ideal; idealism.

Idealism, formalidentity of indiscernibles, principle of the; imagination, productive; imperatives; inclinations; incorporation thesis; inner sense; intelligible; intrinsic value; intuition; Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich (1743-1819); judgements, table of; justice; kingdom of ends; knowledge; law; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716); Locke, John (1632-1704); logic, general; logic, transcendental; love; mathematics; maxim; Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-81); Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786); metaphysics; Metaphysics of Morals (1787); modality; moral law; necessity.

Newton, Isaac (1643-1727) non-contradiction, principle of; noumenal; objective validity/objective reality; obligation; ontological argument; organon; outer sense; pantheism controversy; Paralogisms of Pure Reason; particular judgement; pathological; perfectionism; Perpetual Peace (1795); phenomenal; Physical Monadology (1756); Physico-theologial argument; Pietism; possibility, real versus logical; pre-critical; principle of non-contradiction; principle of sufficient reason; principle; private use of reason; problematic; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783); public use of reason.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781441122483

1441122486

9781441147004

1441147004

OCLC:

1201426894