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.

Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason'

Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason'
Author: Andrews Reath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521896856

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, and his second work in moral theory after the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Its systematic account of the authority of moral principles grounded in human autonomy unfolds Kant's considered views on morality and provides the keystone to his philosophical system. The essays in this volume shed light on the principal arguments of the second Critique and explore their relation to Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. They examine the genesis of the Critique, Kant's approach to the authority of the moral law given as a 'fact of reason', the metaphysics of free agency, the account of respect for morality as the moral motive, and questions raised by the 'primacy of practical reason' and the idea of the 'postulates'. Engaging and critical, this volume will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars of Kant and to moral theorists alike.

Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’

Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804744263

Though he is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses. This volume contains his lectures from the course on the Critique of Pure Reason.

Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998-11-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521599641

Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Author: Eric Watkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2009-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521781620

Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Kant's ‘Critique of Pure Reason'

Kant's ‘Critique of Pure Reason'
Author: James R. O'Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107074819

This Critical Guide provides succinct and in-depth explorations of cutting-edge debates concerning the philosophical significance of Kant's revolutionary Critique of Pure Reason.

The Typic in Kant’s "Critique of Practical Reason"

The Typic in Kant’s
Author: Adam Westra
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110455935

In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled “On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment,” Kant addresses a crucial problem facing his theory of moral judgment: How can we represent the supersensible moral law so as to apply it to actions in the sensible world? Despite its importance to Kant's project, previous studies of the Typic have been fragmentary, disparate, and contradictory. This book provides a detailed commentary on the Typic, elucidating how it enables moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or analogue, of the moral law. In addition, the book situates the Typic, both historically and conceptually, within Kant's theory of symbolic representation. While many commentators have assimilated the Typic to the aesthetic notion of 'symbolic hypotyposis' in the third Critique, the author contends that it has greater continuities with the theoretical notion of 'symbolic anthropomorphism' in the Prolegomena. As the first comprehensive, book-length study of the Typic that critically engages with the secondary literature, this monograph fills an important gap in the research on Kant's ethics and aesthetics and provides a starting point for further inquiry and debate.