The Kantian Subject

ISBN-13: 9781032521930 / Twarda / 2023 / 188 str.

Opis

This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject.

Spis treści

Contributors vii

Preface xi

I

Personality and Human Nature 1

1 On the Distinction between Humanity and Personality in Kant 3

LUIGI CARANTI

2 Kant on the Frailty of Human Nature 21

ROBERT B. LOUDEN

3 ‘A Man for All Faculties’?: The Unity of Kantian Reason from a Pragmatic Point of View 28

GUALTIERO LORINI

4 ‘Geography Makes Us Citizens of the World’: On the Cosmopolitical Nature of Kant’s Geographical Thought 50

FERNANDO M.F. SILVA

II

Personality and Subjectivity 69

5 It thinks: On a Function of the ‘I’ in the Formula of the Principle of Apperception 71

MARIO CAIMI

6 A Role for Creative Imagination in Kant’s Theory of Science 87

PATRICIA KAUARK-LEITE

7 On Becoming a Person and Creating the Kingdom of Ends: Evolution and Revolution towards Freedom 99

PAULO JESUS

8 The Concept of Person in the Metaphysics of Morals: From a Formal to a Material Concept 121

SORAYA NOUR SCKELL

9 Critique. Enlightenment. Parrhesia.: Michel Foucault’s Questioning of The Concepts of Person and Humanity in Kant’s Works 132

MARITA RAINSBOROUGH

III

Personality and Citizenship 143

10 Kant’s Social Sympathy: Debunking Beneficence and Cultivating the Sense of Justice 145

NURIA SANCHEZ MADRID

11 Active Citizenship and Kantian Republicanism 161

LUKE J. DAVIES

12 Personhood according to Kant (and Schiller): Personality, Being a Human Being, and Revolution 180

ANTONINO FALDUTO

13 Kant on Natural Right and Revolution 199

FIORELLA TOMASSINI

Name Index 213

Subject Index 216

O autorze

Fernando M.F. Silva is a postdoctoral fellow and member of the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon. He completed his PhD in 2016, on Novalis’s critique of identity. He is the co-editor of the journal Estudos Kantianos and the co-coordinator of the Study Nucleus Kant and German Idealism, CFUL. His areas of research interest include Kantian Aesthetics and Anthropology, German Idealism and Romanticism, in authors such as Fichte, Novalis, or Holderlin. His publications include the forthcoming volume ‘The Poem of the Understanding Is Philosophy’: Novalis and the Art of Self-Critique, in Mimesis Verlag, Germany.

Luigi Caranti is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universita di Catania. He focuses on Kant, human rights, peace studies, and contemporary political theory with a special emphasis on distributive justice. Among his recent publications: The Kantian Federation (2022) and Kant’s Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress (2017).