Kant and the Experience of Freedom

Kant and the Experience of Freedom
Title Kant and the Experience of Freedom PDF eBook
Author Paul Guyer
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 476
Release 1993
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521568333

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This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis of the most rigorous principle of duty. Kant's thought is placed in a rich historical context including such figures as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kames, as well as Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Schiller, and Hegel. Other topics treated are the sublime, natural versus artistic beauty, genius and art history, and duty and inclination. These essays extend and enrich the account of Kant's aesthetics in the author's earlier book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979).

The Experience of Freedom

The Experience of Freedom
Title The Experience of Freedom PDF eBook
Author Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 252
Release 1993
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780804721905

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The most systematic, radical, and lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy, this book combats the renunciation of freedom attested in modern history by articulating the experience of freedom at work in thought itself.

Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard

Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard
Title Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard PDF eBook
Author Michelle Kosch
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 247
Release 2006-05-25
Genre History
ISBN 0199289115

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This book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard.

The Virtues of Freedom

The Virtues of Freedom
Title The Virtues of Freedom PDF eBook
Author Paul Guyer
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 512
Release 2016-12-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0191072265

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The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends. When regulated by the principle that the freedom of all is equally valuable, the freedom to set our own ends -- what Kant calls "humanity" - becomes what he calls autonomy. These essays explore Kant's strategies for establishing the premise that freedom is the inner worth of the world or the essential end of humankind, as he says, and for deriving the specific duties that fundamental principle of morality generates in the empirical circumstances of human existence. The Virtues of Freedom further investigates Kant's attempts to prove that we are always free to live up to this moral ideal, that is, that we have free will no matter what, as well as his more successful explorations of the ways in which our natural tendencies to be moral -- dispositions to the feeling of respect and more specific feelings such as love and self-esteem -- can and must be cultivated and educated. Guyer finally examines the various models of human community that Kant develops from his premise that our associations must be based on the value of freedom for all. The contrasts but also similarities of Kant's moral philosophy to that of David Hume but many of his other predecessors and contemporaries, such as Stoics and Epicureans, Pufendorf and Wolff, Hutcheson, Kames, and Smith, are also explored.

Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity

Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity
Title Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity PDF eBook
Author Kate A. Moran
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 325
Release 2018-09-27
Genre History
ISBN 1107125936

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A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant's philosophy.

Images of History

Images of History
Title Images of History PDF eBook
Author Richard Eldridge
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 257
Release 2017-12
Genre History
ISBN 0190847360

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Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, systematic, but sharply opposed accounts of human powers and interests in freedom. A persistent constitutive tension between Kantian and Benjaminan ideals is woven through human life. By examining the two philosophers through this volume, Richard Eldridge attempts to make better sense of the commitment forming, commitment revising, anxious, reflective and acculturated human subjects we are.

Kant's System of Nature and Freedom

Kant's System of Nature and Freedom
Title Kant's System of Nature and Freedom PDF eBook
Author Paul Guyer
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 393
Release 2005-04-21
Genre History
ISBN 0199273464

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The governing theme of this volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Kant's System of Nature and Freedom will be essential for anyone working on the history of modern philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.