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Freedom and the End of Reason : On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy.

In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of Kantianism-not merely the Second Critiqu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Velkley, Richard L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Problem of the End of Reason in Kant's Philosophy; The Primacy of the Practical End of Reason; Rousseau's Insight; The Highest Good and the End of Reason; A Prospectus of the Argument; 1. The Revolution in the End of Reason: Some Principal Themes; The Revision of Modern Foundations; The Critique of Instrumental Reason; The Crisis in the Relation of Metaphysics to Common Reason; Rousseau's Protest against Modern Enlightenment; Kantian Philosophy as Transcendental Practice; 2. The Teleological Problem in Modern Individualism.
  • Individualism and Moral SenseRousseau's Challenge to Moral Sense; The Teleological Problem in Rousseau; 3. Kant's Discovery of a Solution, 1764- 65; History, Nature, and Perfection; Will, Reason, and Spontaneity; The Analysis of Passion: Honor and Benevolence; Justice and Equality; Common Reason and the End of Science; 4. The origins of Modern Moral idealism, 1765-80; The Unity of Freedom and Nature as Ideal Goal; The Failures of Ancient Moral Idealism; Morality as System; Socratic Metaphysics as Science of the End and the Limit of Reason; The Dialectic of the Pure Concepts of the Whole.
  • 5. Culture and the Practical Interpretation of The End of Reason, 1781-1800The Ultimate End of Theoretical Inquiry; Philosophy's "Idea" and Its History; Culture's Contradictions and Their Ideal Resolution; Epilogue; Notes; Index.