At the core of Kant's ethics lies the claim that if there is a supreme principle of morality then it cannot be a principle based on utilitarianism or Aristotelian perfectionism or the Ten ...Commandments. The only viable candidate for such a principle is the categorical imperative. This book is the most detailed investigation of this claim. It constructs a new, criterial reading of Kant's derivation of one version of the categorical imperative: the Formula of Universal Law. This reading shows this derivation to be far more compelling than contemporary philosophers tend to believe. It also reveals a novel approach to deriving another version of the categorical imperative, the Formula of Humanity, a principle widely considered to be the most attractive Kantian candidate for the supreme principle of morality. This book will be important not just for Kant scholars but for a broad swathe of students of philosophy.
Kant-Lexikon Marcus Willaschek, Jürgen Stolzenberg, Georg Mohr, Stefano Bacin
2015
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Kants revolutionärer Neuansatz in der Philosophie ging mit der Einführung einer weitgehend neuen Terminologie einher. Dies hat dazu geführt, dass schon zu seinen Lebzeiten mehrfach Kommentare, ...Wörterbücher und Kompendien zu seinem Werk erschienen. Obwohl sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg eine Tradition von Kant-Wörterbüchern entwickelte, steht seit geraumer Zeit kein Lexikon zur Verfügung, das das Werk zeitgemäß, auf der Grundlage der aktuellen Text- Editionen und unter Bezugnahme auf die Forschung ab dem 20. Jahrhundert sowie lexikalisch angemessen erschließt. Diesem Desiderat soll ein neues, dreibändiges Kant-Lexikon nachkommen. Mit über 2.300 Einträgen stellt das Lexikon die Referenz für die Kantforschung dar. Die philosophisch relevanten Termini, von ihm genannten und für seine Philosophie relevanten Personennamen sowie die Titel seiner Schriften werden behandelt. An dem Projekt sind über 200 internationale Wissenschaftler beteiligt.
This volume provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kant's predecessors and contemporaries in ...eighteenth-century Germany, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with 'pure reason', the criticisms of pure reason that had developed prior to Kant's, and alternative attempts at synthesizing empiricist elements within a rationalist framework. The volume contains chapters on Christian Wolff, Martin Knutzen, Alexander Baumgarten, Christian Crusius, Leonhard Euler, Johann Lambert, Marcus Herz, Johann Eberhard, and Johann Tetens. Each chapter includes a brief introduction that provides succinct biographical and bibliographical information on these authors, a concise account of their projects, and information on the importance of these projects to Kant's First Critique. Extensive references to the First Critique, brought together in a concordance, highlight the potential relevance of each text.
This volume contains a collection of seventeen essays which have been previously published on Kant and an addendum to one of these essays that is here published for the first time. Although these ...essays cover virtually the full spectrum of the author's work on Kant, ranging from his epistemology, metaphysics, and moral theory to his views on teleology, political philosophy, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of religion, most of them revolve around three basic themes: the nature of transcendental idealism, freedom of the will, and the purposiveness of nature. The first two of these have been the foci of the author's work on Kant since its inception and the essays dealing with them in this volume are intended as clarifications, elaborations, and further developments of what the author has said on these topics elsewhere. Among their major new elements is the introduction of a significant comparative dimension, which is intended both to place Kant's views in their historical context and to explore their contemporary relevance. To this end, Kant's views are contrasted with those of his major predecessors and immediate successors, as well as present‐day philosophers. The concept of the purposiveness of nature is the major contribution of the third Critique (Critique of the Power of Judgment) to Kant's “critical” philosophy and one the main concerns of the essays dealing with it is to demonstrate its central place in Kant's thought.
Zeit und Raum Martic, Marko
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In der Reihe werden herausragende monographische Untersuchungen und Sammelbände zu allen Aspekten der Philosophie Kants veröffentlicht, ebenso zum systematischen Verhältnis seiner Philosophie zu ...anderen philosophischen Ansätzen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Veröffentlicht werden Studien, die einen innovativen Charakter haben und ausdrückliche Desiderate der Forschung erfüllen. Die Publikationen repräsentieren den aktuellsten Stand der Forschung.
This book explores Kant's influence on the development of biology and his importance for contemporary issues in philosophy of biology. Establishing Kant-inspired approaches toward these issues helps ...to develop new perspectives that critically examine underlying assumptions in biology.
Kant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his ...distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant's critical philosophy. They explore a wide range of topics, including Kant's account of cognition, the senses, self-knowledge, freedom, passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism. The volume will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship as well as beyond, and will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Kant, the history of anthropology, the philosophy of psychology and the social sciences.
En este trabajo reconstruimos el lugar de la música en la división de las artes propuesto por Kant en su tercera crítica, deteniéndonos en los aspectosque la vuelven un arte complejo de caracterizar. ...Para este objetivo expondremos los fundamentos que permiten ubicar a la música en los lugares más elevados de su incipiente sistema de las artes, como también aquellas razones que permiten encontrarla dentro de los más bajos. Además, abordamos el problema del lugar pendular de la música como arte bello y como arte agradable, recuperando y contrastando diversos pasajes de su Crítica de la facultad de juzgar. Para complementar este último objetivo, recuperamos lecturas de diferentes pensadoras y pensadores encontrando, por un lado, a quienes consideran que Kant caracteriza a la música como arte bello, y por otro, a quienes consideran que la caracteriza como mero arte agradable. Finalmente presentamos las conclusiones que permiten comprender que su doble posibilidad, como arte bello y agradable, depende de las formas en las que el sujeto se vincula con la música.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon related to business ethical purposes from a different perspective, using the philosophical lens developed by Immanuel Kant. This work is also ...oriented to identify the most important research topics related to business ethics through the combination of a different framework. The present paper intends to offer a conceptual contribution to the ongoing debate on the theme of ethics in corporate social responsibility, highlighting the main problematic aspects that emerge from the analysis of the literature and the observation of reality in the light of the philosophical framework of Kant. This paper, therefore, examines and applies the deontological view of Kant and his distinction between the ‘categorical’ and ‘hypothetic’ imperative. This ethical view is useful to prevent instrumental acceptance of ethical codes and sustainability reports; in fact, during the making of the work, several well-known practices are presented, which are far from behaving in a moral way (i.e., General Electrics, Lehman Brothers, and so on).
