Kant A revolution in thinking
"Immanuel Kant revolutionized philosophical method and decisively shaped modern politics. Three hundred years after Kant's birth, Marcus Willaschek brings together the German idealist's life and thought, examining the personality who changed the course of intellectual history as well as the substanc...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Kant's three revolutions
- Part I: Politics and history within the boundaries of mere reason. The highest political good: "perpetual" peace ; Moses Mendelssohn and the advancement of humankind ; The Enlightenment and its dialectic ; Freedom and coercion: Kant on education
- Part II: The morality of reason. The cult of reason: of humans, deities, and extraterrestrials ; Great Kant, the categorical imperative doesn't help a bit! ; The mason as an end in himself ; "Rousseau brought me around": human dignity and autonomy ; The "Highest Good" and the best of all possible worlds
- Part III: Rational beings in society. "I have seen the world's salvation!": Kant on justice and revolution ; "This is mine": on intellectual and other property ; A cosmopolitan in KoĢnigsberg ; The freedoms of a humble servant ; God's Kingdom on Earth: Kant's religion of reason ; Part IV: Humans as part of nature. What (and who) is a human being? ; On wit and other faculties: Kant as psychologist ; Do beautiful things show that humans belong in the world? ; "The starry heavens above me": Kant as scientist ; Are animals machines? Kant on teleology
- Part V: Metaphysical knowledge and its limits. Metaphysics: ultimate questions with no answers? ; Critique: reason scrutinizes everything, even itself ; We must make our concepts sensible! ; Bodies in the mirror: Kant on space ; Objectivity (almost) without an object ; Dispute over things-in-themselves: Kant's Critique and its first critics ; Infinite series or a prime mover? Kant on free will ; Was Kant an atheist?
- Part VI: The end. How everything interrelates: philosophy ; "The pure gold of his philosophy": Kant's legacy
- Chronology
- Glossary of philosophical terms.
