Late Kant Fenves, Peter
2003, 20040802, 2004, 2003-07-10, 2004-08-02, 20030101
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Immanuel Kant spent many of his younger years working on what are generally considered his masterpieces: the three Critiques. But his work did not stop there: in later life he began to reconsider ...subjects such as anthropology, and topics including colonialism, race and peace. In Late Kant, Peter Fenves becomes one of the first to thoroughly explore Kant's later writings and give them the detailed scholarly attention they deserve. In his opening chapters, Fenves examines in detail the various essays in which Kant invents, formulates and complicates the thesis of 'radical evil' - a thesis which serves as the point of departure for all his later writings. Late Kant then turns towards the counter-thesis of 'radical mean-ness', which states that human beings exist on earth for the sake of another species or race of human beings. The consequences of this startling thesis are that human beings cannot claim possession of the earth, but must rather prepare the earth for its rightful owners.Late Kant is the first book to develop the 'geo-ethics' of Kant's thought, and the idea that human beings must be prepared to concede their space for another kind of human. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the later works of Immanuel Kant.
Freiheit nach Kant analyzes Kant's conception of freedom from a historical and systematic point of view. It considers its position in the history of philosophy, its impact on German Idealism, and ...finally discusses the systematic relevance of Kant's theory.
Kant's lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power. They are immensely important for advancing our understanding of Kant's conception of anthropology, its ...development, and the notoriously difficult relationship between it and the critical philosophy. This 2003 collection of essays by some of the leading commentators on Kant offers a systematic account of the philosophical importance of this material that should nevertheless prove of interest to historians of ideas and political theorists. There are two broad approaches adopted: a number of the essays consider the systematic relations of the anthropology to critical philosophy, especially speculative knowledge and ethics. Other essays focus on the anthropology as a major source for the clarification of both the content and development of Kant's work. The volume also serves as an interpretative complement to the translation of the lectures in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.
Starting from Kant's striking question 'What is orientation in thinking?', this book argues that the main challenge facing global normative theorising lies in its failure to acknowledge its ...conceptual inadequacies. We do not know how to reason globally; instead, we tend to apply our domestic political experiences to the global context. Katrin Flikschuh argues that we must develop a form of global reasoning that is sensitive to the variability of contexts: rather than trying to identify a uniquely shareable set of substantive principles, we need to appreciate and understand local reasons for action. Her original and incisive study shows how such reasoning can benefit from the open-ended nature of Kant's systematic but non-dogmatic philosophical thinking, and from reorientation from a domestic to a non-domestic frame of thought. It will appeal to all those interested in global moral issues, as well as to Kant scholars.
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.
Throughout his life, Kant was concerned with questions about empirical psychology. He aimed to develop an empirical account of human beings, and his lectures and writings on the topic are ...recognizable today as properly 'psychological' treatments of human thought and behavior. In this book Patrick R. Frierson uses close analysis of relevant texts, including unpublished lectures and notes, to study Kant's account. He shows in detail how Kant explains human action, choice, and thought in empirical terms, and how a better understanding of Kant's psychology can shed light on major concepts in his philosophy, including the moral law, moral responsibility, weakness of will, and cognitive error. Frierson also applies Kant's accounts of mental illness to contemporary philosophical issues. His book will interest students and scholars of Kant, the history of psychology, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of action.
In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ...ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God (Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the development of these respective theories, and clearly and sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.
John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Immanuel Kant. Each course takes up one of Kant's three Critiques, and thus the text as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. For ...students and seasoned scholars who require a step-by-step interpretation of Kant, these texts by Sallis are attuned to the spirit, structure, and principle of these foundational works.
Jaime Rubio Ángulo, una remembranza González, Leonardo Tovar
Cuadernos de filosofía latinoamericana,
01/2020, Volume:
41, Issue:
122
Journal Article
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Por la factura de su escritura, la agudeza de sus análisis y la profundidad de sus tesis, sin duda los textos de Jaime Rubio respondían a esta concepción estética del mismo ejercicio filosófico, en ...que la intervención del auditorio debe limitarse a aplaudir en reconocimiento del brillo de la interpretación. Egresado de las primeras generaciones de filósofos de la recién restaurada Facultad de Filosofía y Humanismo de la usta, podemos rememorar a Jaime Rubio como el estudiante y el maestro que los antecedió a ustedes y nos anticipó a nosotros, en el interés por el devenir filosófico latinoamericano. Allí, esto es, en el curso y en el libro de antropología, aprendí con Rubio que Ricoeur nos enseñó que "el símbolo da qué pensar", por lo que nos corresponde ahora desentrañar el símbolo envuelto en la postulación de su nombre para nuestro coloquio, iniciativa de un servidor que respaldó con entusiasmo nuestra gentil directora de la aestría. Valiéndome de una tipología kantiana esbozada por él mismo, hablaré de una arquitectónica y de una histórica de la razón latinoamericana, expuestas por Rubio respectivamente en la conferencia inaugural que dictó en 1980 en la apertura del "I Congreso Internacional de Filosofía Latinoamericana" y en el primer capítulo de su texto, también de la colección "Flecha roja", "Historia de la Filosofía Latinoamericana- I", apartado reproducido en el artículo que en 1979 abrió el primer número de "Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana". Luego de repasar los antecedentes del problema de la "historia de las ideas" con Ortega y Gasset, Gaos, Romero, Roig y Dussel, el autor anuncia que combinará criterios temporales y geográficos en la exposición de la historia filosófica latinoamericana, que en aquel primer tomo incorporó el pensamiento anterior al llamado descubrimiento y la filosofía desarrollada en el continente durante la dominación hispánica. Con la sobriedad característica del estilo filosófico de nuestros tiempos, insisto en que hoy no podríamos suscribir este tipo de enunciaciones, pero sin duda el enunciado posee plena vigencia, y por eso hoy proseguimos aquí en el estudio, investigación y difusión del pensamiento filosófico latinoamericano.
