Immanuel Kant

Notes and Fragments

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Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
Provides the first ever extensive translation of the notes and fragments that survived Kant's death.

Main description
This volume provides the first ever extensive translation of the notes and fragments that survived Kant's death in 1804. These include marginalia, lecture notes, and sketches and drafts for his published works. They are important as an indispensable resource for understanding Kant's intellectual development and published works, casting new light on Kant's conception of his own philosophical methods and his relations to his predecessors, as well as on central doctrines of his work such as the theory of space, time and categories, the refutations of skepticism and metaphysical dogmatism, the theory of the value of freedom and the possibility of free will, the conception of God, the theory of beauty, and much more.

Table of contents:
1. Notes on the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime; 2. Notes on logic; 3. Notes on metaphysics; 4. Notes on moral philosophy; 5. Notes on aesthetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1197g
• ISBN-13: 9780521552486
• ISBN-10: 0521552486
• Artikelnr.: 21056902

Autorenporträt

Immanuel Kant ( 22 April 1724 - 12 February 1804) was an influential German philosopher[23] in the Age of Enlightenment. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, he argued that space, time, and causation are mere sensibilities; "things-in-themselves" exist, but their nature is unknowable.[24][25] In his view, the mind shapes and structures experience, with all human experience sharing certain structural features. In one of his major works, the Critique of Pure Reason (1781; second edition 1787),[26] he drew a parallel to the Copernican revolution in his proposition that worldly objects can be intuited a priori ('beforehand'), and that intuition is therefore independent from objective reality.[b] Kant believed that reason is also the source of morality, and that aesthetics arise from a faculty of disinterested judgment. Kant's views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, especially the fields of epistemology, ethics, political theory, and post-modern aesthetics. He attempted to explain the relationship between reason and human experience and to move beyond the failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. He wanted to put an end to what he saw as an era of futile and speculative theories of human experience, while resisting the skepticism of thinkers such as David Hume. He regarded himself as showing the way past the impasse between rationalists and empiricists,[28] and is widely held to have synthesized both traditions in his thought.[29] Kant was an exponent of the idea that perpetual peace could be secured through universal democracy and international cooperation. He believed that this would be the eventual outcome of universal history, although it is not rationally planned.[30] The nature of Kant's religious ideas continues to be the subject of philosophical dispute, with viewpoints ranging from the impression that he was an initial advocate of atheism who at some point developed an ontological argument for God, to more critical treatments epitomized by Schopenhauer, who criticized the imperative form of Kantian ethics as "theological morals" and the "Mosaic Decalogue in disguise",[31] and Nietzsche, who claimed that Kant had "theologian blood"[32] and was merely a sophisticated apologist for traditional Christian faith

Inhaltsangabe

General editor's preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Selections from the notes on the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
2. Notes on logic
3. Notes on metaphysics
4. Notes on moral philosophy
5. Notes on aesthetics
Notes
Glossary
Index to Kant's texts.