Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780367884024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str.

Elizabeth Robinson; Chris W. Surprenant

Opis

This book examines the influence of Hume, Reid, Smith, Hutcheson, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. It begins with the influence of these thinkers on Kant, then moves to an examination of the relationship between truth, freedom, and responsibility and its connection to Kant’s metaphysics and aesthetics.

O autorze

Elizabeth Robinson is an assistant professor of philosophy at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Her research primarily considers early modern philosophy with a focus on Hume and Kant.

Chris W. Surprenant is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans, where he directs the Alexis de Tocqueville Project in Law, Liberty, and Morality. He is the author of Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue (Routledge 2014).