Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

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Gualtiero Lorini, Robert B. Louden
Springer, 17.10.2018 - 171 Seiten

This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kant’s thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kant’s philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kant’s thought.

 

Inhalt

Introduction
1
Part I Sources and Influences in Kants Definition of the Knowledge Concerning the Human Being
9
Elucidations of the Sources of Kants Anthropology
11
AnthropologyA Legacy from Wolff to Kant?
29
The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant
43
Baumgartens Presence in Kants Anthropology
62
Kant on the Vocation and Formation of the Human Being
81
Metaphysics Morals Psychology Politics
99
The Moral Dimensions of Kants Anthropology
101
Kants Concept of Poetry and the Anthropological Revolution of Human Imagination
117
Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
133
Kants Account of Mental Illness in the Anthropology Writings
147
Index
163
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Gualtiero Lorini is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Kant-Gesellschaft and the North American Kant Society, and the author of the volume Fonti e lessico dell’ontologia kantiana. I corsi di metafisica (1762-1795) (Pisa: 2017). His research interests include German idealism, philosophical anthropology in 18th-Century Germany, and the interactions between Neo-Kantianism and Phenomenology.

Robert B. Louden is Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA. A former president of the North American Kant Society (NAKS), Louden is also co-editor and translator of two volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. He co-edited his most recent book, Why Be Moral? (2015) with Beatrix Himmelmann and has published numerous books on Kant.

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