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Essays on Kant's Anthropology.
Title:
Essays on Kant's Anthropology.
Author:
Jacobs, Brian.
ISBN:
9781139146661
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Kant's Lectures on Anthropology -- The Challenge of Kant's Anthropology -- The Occasion for This Collection -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 2 Historical Notes and Interpretive Questions about Kant's Lectures on Anthropology -- I -- II -- Bibliography -- Notes -- 3 Kant and the Problem of Human Nature -- "What is the Human Being?" -- Pragmatic Anthropology -- The Empirical Investigation of Freedom -- The Unsatisfactory State of Anthropology -- The Indefinability of Human Nature -- The Difficulty of Self-Knowledge -- Humanity and Other Animal Species -- Human Nature as Social and Historical -- Notes -- 4 The Second Part of Morals -- The Missing Link? -- Fooled by Hope? -- Moral Messages -- Human Hindrances -- Weltkenntnis -- Moral Anthropology as Practical Philosophy -- Notes -- 5 The Guiding Idea of Kant's Anthropology and the Vocation of the Human Being -- The Guiding Idea of Kant's "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" -- The Vocation of the Human Being -- Notes -- 6 Kantian Character and the Problem of a Science of Humanity -- Notes -- 7 Beauty, Freedom, and Morality -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- 8 Kant's Apology for Sensibility -- The Critical Doctrine of Sensibility -- The Sources of Sensibility -- The Apology for Sensibility -- Bibliography -- Notes -- 9 Kant's "True Economy of Human Nature" -- The Problem of Happiness -- Lectures Prior to 1777 -- Anthropology after 1777: Pillau and Menschenkunde -- Notes -- 10 Prudential Reason in Kant's Anthropology -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes.
Abstract:
The essays in this 2003 book offer a systematic account of the philosophical importance of Kant's lectures on anthropology.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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