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Kant's Observations and Remarks : a Critical Guide.
A guide to two of the most revealing of Kant's early writings, which facilitates understanding his later practical thought.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge critical guides.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Kant's OBSERVATIONS and REMARKS; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction: Kant as youthful observer and legislator; 1; 2; 3; PART I: Kant's Ethical Thought: Sources and Stages; CHAPTER 1: Concerning Kant's earliest ethics: an attempt at a reconstruction; 1 KANT'S CRITIQUE OF LEIBNIZ'S THEODICY AND THE PROBLEM OF A GROUNDING OF ETHICS; 2 THE CONCEPT OF OBLIGATION IN CRUSIUS AND KANT'S 1762 PRIZE ESSAY; 3 THE CONCEPT OF PERFECTION IN WOLFF AND THE STARTING POINT OF KANTIAN ETHICS.
- CHAPTER 2: Chimerical ethics and flattering moralists: Baumgarten's influence on Kant's moral theory in the Observations and Remarks1 BAUMGARTEN AND MEIER ON FLAWED SYSTEMS OF ETHICS; 2 CHIMERICAL ETHICS AND THE OBSERVATIONS; 3 THE REMARKS ON OUR NATURAL AND CORRUPTED POWERS; 4 THE FLATTERING ETHICS OF THE OBSERVATIONS; CHAPTER 3: Two concepts of universality in Kant's moral theory; 1 UNIVERSALITY IN OBSERVATIONS; 2 UNIVERSALITY IN THE REMARKS; 3 WHY SUBJECTIVE UNIVERSALITY?; 4 INFLUENCES; 5 CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 4: Freedom as the foundation of morality: Kant's early efforts.
- FINDING A FOUNDATION FOR THE CATEGORI CAL IMPERATIVE1 FORMULATING THE CATEGORI CAL IMPERATIVE; 2 THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE; 3 CONCLUSION; PART II: Ethics and Aesthetics; CHAPTER 5: Relating aesthetic and sociable feelings to moral and participatory feelings: reassessing Kant on sympathy and honor; AESTHETIC FEELINGS AND HUMAN ATTRIBUTES; HONOR AS AN INCENTIVE; CULTIVATING AESTHETIC RECEPTIVITY TO TRANSFORM PASSIVE FEELINGS INTO ACTIVE PARTICIPATORY FEELINGS; CHAPTER 6: Kant's distinction between true and false sublimity; 1 THE SUBLIME; 1.1 The Observations; 1.2 The Remarks.
- 2 MORAL FEELING IN THE OBSERVATIONS AND THE REMARKS3 THE TRUE/FALSE SUBLIME; 3.1 The Observations; 3.2 The Remarks; 4 CONCLUSION: TOWARD THE AESTHETIC THEORY OF 1790; CHAPTER 7: Kant's "curious catalogue of human frailties" and the great portrait of nature; 1 THE GREAT PORTRAIT OF NATURE; 2 HUMAN TYPES, NATURAL DRIVES, AND THE UNITY OF THE SPECIES; 2.1 Temperaments, natural drives, and moral worth; 2.2 Gender, natural drives, and moral worth; 3 THE DEGENERATION OF NATURAL TENDENCIES: THE ADVENTUROUS AND THE GROTESQUE; CONCLUSION; PART III: Education, Politics, and National Character.
- CHAPTER 8: Relative goodness and ambivalence of human.traits: reflections in light of Kant's pedagogical concernsFIVEFOLD DISTINCTION IN TRAITS OF HUMAN NATURE; Natural versus unnatural; Simple; Virtuous and moral; PRECURSORS TO PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY; EARLY TREATMENT OF THE CRUDER FEELINGS; SELF-INTEREST AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; CHAPTER 9: Kant as rebel against the social order; THE REMARKS AS LITERARY DOCUMENT; THE STRUCTURE AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL FRAME OF REFERENCE OF THE SELECTED "REMARK"; CHOICE AND WILL; FREE CHOICE; THE BODY; THE WORLD.