Kant on Practical Life

Kant on Practical Life
Author: Kristi E. Sweet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107037239

This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's practical philosophy that highlights the unity across its disparate themes.

Imagination and Depth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Imagination and Depth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Author: Bernard Freydberg
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1994
Genre: Bibles
ISBN:

The Kerygma of the Wilderness Traditions in the Hebrew Bible examines biblical writers' use of the wilderness traditions in the books of Exodus and Numbers, Deuteronomy, the Prophets, and the Writings to express their beliefs in God and their understandings of the community's relationship to God. Kerygma is the proclamation of God's actions with the purpose of affirming faith/or appealing to an obedient response from the community. The experiences of the wilderness community, who rebelled and refused to live according to God's purposes, serve as a polemic against disbelief in God and the refusal to embrace Israel's religious heritage. In the Writings, more than in the Prophets, the wilderness traditions are remembered with a notable resemblance to the traditions in Exodus and Numbers, which reflects a heightened interest in the ancient traditions in the closing turbulent period of Israelite history. Recollections of Israel's beginnings in the wilderness address problems associated with faith, obedience, and ultimately, the nature of the Israelite community.

Kant and Applied Ethics

Kant and Applied Ethics
Author: Matthew C. Altman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118114132

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant’s ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses Examines the controversies surrounding the most important ethical discussions taking place today, including abortion, the death penalty, and same-sex marriage Joins innovative thinkers in contemporary Kantian scholarship, including Christine Korsgaard, Allen Wood, and Barbara Herman, in taking Kant’s philosophy in new and interesting directions Clarifies Kant's legacy for applied ethics, helping us to understand how these debates have been structured historically and providing us with the philosophical tools to address them

Critique of Practical Reason

Critique of Practical Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012-06-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0486113027

This 1788 work, based on belief in the immortality of the soul, established Kant as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity. It offers the most complete statement of his theory of free will.

On What Matters

On What Matters
Author: Derek Parfit
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017-02-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191084379

Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we all have reasons to care about these things. Much of the book discusses three of the main kinds of meta-ethical theory: Normative Naturalism, Quasi-Realist Expressivism, and Non-Metaphysical Non-Naturalism, which Derek Parfit now calls Non-Realist Cognitivism. This third theory claims that, if we use the word 'reality' in an ontologically weighty sense, irreducibly normative truths have no mysterious or incredible ontological implications. If instead we use 'reality' in a wide sense, according to which all truths are truths about reality, this theory claims that some non-empirically discoverable truths-such as logical, mathematical, modal, and some normative truths-raise no difficult ontological questions. Parfit discusses these theories partly by commenting on the views of some of the contributors to Peter Singer's collection Does Anything Really Matter? Parfit on Objectivity. Though Peter Railton is a Naturalist, he has widened his view by accepting some further claims, and he has suggested that this wider version of Naturalism could be combined with Non-Realist Cognitivism. Parfit argues that Railton is right, since these theories no longer deeply disagree. Though Allan Gibbard is a Quasi-Realist Expressivist, he has suggested that the best version of his view could be combined with Non-Realist Cognitivism. Parfit argues that Gibbard is right, since Gibbard and he now accept the other's main meta-ethical claim. It is rare for three such different philosophical theories to be able to be widened in ways that resolve their deepest disagreements. This happy convergence supports the view that these meta-ethical theories are true. Parfit also discusses the views of several other philosophers, and some other meta-ethical and normative questions.

Kant's Life and Thought

Kant's Life and Thought
Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300029826

"Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen’s and Cassirer’s only full-scale study of Kant’s philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer’s philosophy was based on Kant’s, and accordingly this book is Cassirer’s explicit coming to terms with his own historical origins. It sensitively integrates interesting facts about Kant’s life with an appreciation and critique of his works. Its value is enhanced by Stephen K�rner’s Introduction, which places Cassirer’s Kant-interpretation in its historical and contemporary context.”--Lewis White Beck "The first English translation (well done by James Haden) of a 60-year-old classic intellectual biography. Those readers who know Kant only through the first Critique will find their understanding of that work deepened and illuminated by a long explication of the pre-critical writings, but perhaps the most distinctive contribution is Cassirer’s argument that the later Critiques, and especially the Critique of Judgment, must be understood not as merely applying the principles of the first to other areas but as subsuming the latter into a larger and more comprehensive framework.”--Frederick J. Crown, The Key Reporter "Kant’s Life and Thought is that rare achievement: a lucid and highly readable account of the life and work of one of the world’s profoundest thinkers. Now for the first time available in an admirable English translation, the book introduces the reader to two of the finest minds in the history of philosophy.”--Ashley Montagu

Adorno's Practical Philosophy

Adorno's Practical Philosophy
Author: Fabian Freyenhagen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-07-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107036542

A unique exploration of Adorno's ethics, defending his challenging views about how to live in an evil world.

Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience

Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience
Author: Jeanine Grenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107033586

This book argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from common human experience of the conflict between happiness and morality.

Kant and the Faculty of Feeling

Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Author: Kelly Sorensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107178223

First essay collection devoted to Kant's faculty of feeling, a concept relevant to issues in ethics, aesthetics, and the emotions.

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674903463

Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.