Essays On Kants Anthropology
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Author | : Brian Jacobs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2003-02-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139441450 |
Kant's lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power. They are immensely important for advancing our understanding of Kant's conception of anthropology, its development, and the notoriously difficult relationship between it and the critical philosophy. This 2003 collection of essays by some of the leading commentators on Kant offers a systematic account of the philosophical importance of this material that should nevertheless prove of interest to historians of ideas and political theorists. There are two broad approaches adopted: a number of the essays consider the systematic relations of the anthropology to critical philosophy, especially speculative knowledge and ethics. Other essays focus on the anthropology as a major source for the clarification of both the content and development of Kant's work. The volume also serves as an interpretative complement to the translation of the lectures in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.
Author | : Alix Cohen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107024919 |
This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2007-11-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521452503 |
This 2007 volume contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature.
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-07-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
"In his critical interpretation of Kant's Anthropology, Michel Foucault warns against the dangers of treating psychology as a new metaphysics. Instead, he explores the possibility of studying man empirically as he is affected by time, art and technique, self-perception, and language. If man is both the condition for knowledge and its ultimate object, any empirical knowledge of man is inextricably tied up with language. Far from being a study of self-consciousness, anthropology is a way of questioning the limits of human knowledge and concrete existence." "Long unknown to Foucault readers, this text offers the first outline of what would later become Foucault's own frame of reference within the history of philosophy. Standing at a crossroad of his ouevre, it allows us to look back on Madness and Civilization while it sketches out the relationship between discourse and truth developed in The Order of Things. This "introduction" finally announces what will be considered the most scandalous aspect of Foucault's thought: the death of man, but also the joyous advent of the Ubermensch, the philosopher-artist capable of creating vital values."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Robert B. Louden |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019991110X |
In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, "What is the human being" is philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. Louden analyzes and evaluates Kant's own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. This collection of twelve essays is divided into three parts. In Part One (Human Virtues), Louden explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant's ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant's virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. In Part Two (Ethics and Anthropology), he uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant's anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant's work on human nature and his ethics. Finally, in Part Three (Extensions of Anthropology), Louden explores specific aspects of Kant's theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education ,and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings. Kant's Human Being offers a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the question that Kant held to be the most important of all, and will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to all who are concerned with the study of human nature.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521771617 |
The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.
Author | : Robert Spaemann |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1621891119 |
The question of the nature of humanity is one of the most complex of all philosophical and theological inquiries. Where might one look to find a decent answer to this question? Should we turn to an investigation of genetics and DNA for such answers? Should we look to the history of humanity's adaption and evolution? Should we look to humanity's cultural achievements and the form of its social life? In this intriguing and provocative collection of essays, philosopher Robert Spaemann reacts against what he calls "scientistic" anthropology and ventures to take up afresh the quaestio de homine, "the question of man." Spaemann contends that when it comes to the nagging question of what we truly are as human beings, understanding our chemical make-up or evolutionary past simply cannot give us the full picture. Instead, without doing away with the findings of modern evolutionary science, Spaemann offers successive treatments of human nature, human evolution, and human dignity, which paint a full and compelling picture of the meaning of human life. Crucial to any anthropology, he demonstrates, is our future as well as our past. And our relationship to God as well as to our next-door neighbor. All of these themes coalesce in a vital contribution to the question of what it means to be human.
Author | : Holly L. Wilson |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791481298 |
The first comprehensive examination in English of Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.
Author | : Pablo Muchnik |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780739140161 |
Kant's Theory of Evil: An Essay on the Dangers of Self-Love and the Aprioricity of History presents a novel interpretation and defense of Kant's theory of evil. Pablo Muchnik argues that this theory stems from Kant's attempt to reconcile two parallel lines of thought in his own writings: on the one hand, a philosophy of the history of Rousseauian inspiration and naturalistic tendencies; on the other, the meta-physical project of founding morality exclusively on a priori grounds. The syncretism of Kant's view, as exemplified by the resulting moral anthropology in Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason, explains its persistent allure and elusiveness among Kantian readers. Solving some of the most intractable problems surrounding Kant's position, Muchnik's reconstruction is designed to break the deadlock existing between contemporary rival schools of interpretation, torn between Kant's naturalistic tendencies and his moral individualism. This book will certainly influence the way we approach Kantian ethics and the problem of evil in general. Book jacket.
Author | : Jon M. Mikkelsen |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438443617 |
Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries. Kant and the Concept of Race features translations of four texts by Immanuel Kant frequently designated his Racenschriften (race essays), in which he develops and defends an early theory of race. Also included are translations of essays by four of Kants contemporariesE. A. W. Zimmermann, Georg Forster, Christoph Meiners, and Christoph Girtannerwhich illustrate that Kants interest in the subject of race was part of a larger discussion about human differences, one that impacted the development of scientific fields ranging from natural history to physical anthropology to biology.