Thus I shall briefly examine it here . Now Kant claims that the mark of certain knowledge is the presence of strict universality or necessity — that is , truth in all possible worlds . Kant agrees with both the empiricists and the ...
Wood's later book, Kant's Rational Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978), provides a particularly important discussion of the Lectures on the Philosophical Doctrine of Religion. Wood is also the author of the chapter on ...
Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought ...
"Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen’s and Cassirer’s only full-scale study of Kant’s philosophy.
The best known version of the objection in AngloAmerican philosophy is by Sidgwick (2005, 181–87), who, ignoring the Wille–Willkür distinction, attributed two incompatible conceptions of freedom to Kant: one in which freedom is equated ...
Many contemporaries criticized him for smashing the Age of Reason. Goethe, however, remarked that reading a page of Immanuel Kant was like entering a bright and well-lighted room: The great...
The essays in this volume, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discuss Kant's philosophical development and his rejection of earlier moral theories, the role of happiness and inclination in the Groundwork, Kant's moral ...
This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.
In this short, accessible book, eminent philosopher and Kant expert Yirmiyahu Yovel helps readers find their way through the web of Kant's classic by providing a clear and authoritative summary of the entire work.
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts ever written. Like Copernicus, Kant dared to question the ordinary perspective from which we habitually view the world.
That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant. his or her own understanding and evaluation of Kant's philosophy, the reader is advised to consult some of the literature in ...