The Cambridge Companion to KantPaul Guyer The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason (1781) shook the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic principles of the natural sciences are imposed on reality by human sensibility and understanding, and thus that human beings are also free to impose their own free and rational agency on the world. This volume is the only systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant's writings available, and the first major overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An internationally recognized team of Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion. The volume also traces the historical origins and consequences of Kant's work. |
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Contents
The starry heavens and the moral law | 1 |
17461781 | 26 |
The Transcendental Aesthetic | 62 |
Functions of thought and the synthesis of intuitions | 101 |
The transcendental deduction of the categories | 123 |
Causal laws and the foundations of natural science | 161 |
Empirical rational and transcendental psychology Psychology as science and as philosophy | 200 |
Reason and the practice of science | 228 |
Vindicating reason | 280 |
Autonomy obligation and virtue An overview of Kants moral philosophy | 309 |
Politics freedom and order Kants political philosophy | 342 |
Taste sublimity and genius The aesthetics of nature and art | 367 |
Rational theology moral faith and religion | 394 |
The first twenty years of critique The Spinoza connection | 417 |
Bibliography | 449 |
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