This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. Eleven specially written essays by leading scholars of German philosophy will boost further the growth of interest in Baumgarten as a key figure in the history of European thought.
This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. Eleven specially written essays by leading scholars of German philosophy will boost further the growth of interest in Baumgarten as a key figure in the history of European thought.
Courtney D. Fugate is Associate Professor of Civilization Studies and Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is co-editor and translator of both Alexander Baumgarten's Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes and Related Materials (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Johann August Eberhard's Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant's Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript (Bloomsbury 2016), and author of The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy (de Gruyter, 2014). He also has forthcoming Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason': A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury). John Hymers is Associate Professor of Philosophy at La Salle University, Philadelphia, where he teaches Modern Philosophy. Most recently, he is co-editor and translator of both Alexander Baumgarten's Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes and Related Materials (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Johann August Eberhard's Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant's Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript (Bloomsbury 2016). He earned his PhD at KU Leuven (Belgium) under William Desmond, and is the author of articles on Ludwig Feuerbach and environmental philosophy. Former managing editor of Ethical Perspectives, Hymers has also published many translations from Dutch and German.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: Brandon C. Look: Baumgarten's Rationalism * 2: Angelica Nuzzo: Determination, Determinability, and the Structure of Ens: Baumgarten's Ontology and Beyond * 3: Clemens Schwaiger: Baumgarten's Theory of Freedom: A Contribution to the Wolff-Lange Controversy * 4: Gary Hatfield: Baumgarten, Wolff, Descartes, and the Origins of Psychology * 5: Corey W. Dyck: Between Wolffianism and Pietism: Baumgarten's Rational Psychology * 6: Rudolf A. Makkreel: Baumgarten and Kant on Clarity, Distinctness, and the Differentiation of our Mental Powers * 7: John Hymers: Contradiction and Privation: Baumgarten and Kant on the Concept of Nothing * 8: Courtney D. Fugate: Baumgarten and Kant on Existence * 9: Paul Guyer: Baumgarten, Kant, and the Refutation of Idealism * 10: Henry E. Allison: Freedom of the Will in Baumgarten and Kant's ML1 * 11: Jeffrey Edwards: Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Principle of Thoroughgoing Determination in Kant's Opus postumum
* Introduction * 1: Brandon C. Look: Baumgarten's Rationalism * 2: Angelica Nuzzo: Determination, Determinability, and the Structure of Ens: Baumgarten's Ontology and Beyond * 3: Clemens Schwaiger: Baumgarten's Theory of Freedom: A Contribution to the Wolff-Lange Controversy * 4: Gary Hatfield: Baumgarten, Wolff, Descartes, and the Origins of Psychology * 5: Corey W. Dyck: Between Wolffianism and Pietism: Baumgarten's Rational Psychology * 6: Rudolf A. Makkreel: Baumgarten and Kant on Clarity, Distinctness, and the Differentiation of our Mental Powers * 7: John Hymers: Contradiction and Privation: Baumgarten and Kant on the Concept of Nothing * 8: Courtney D. Fugate: Baumgarten and Kant on Existence * 9: Paul Guyer: Baumgarten, Kant, and the Refutation of Idealism * 10: Henry E. Allison: Freedom of the Will in Baumgarten and Kant's ML1 * 11: Jeffrey Edwards: Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Principle of Thoroughgoing Determination in Kant's Opus postumum
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