"Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosophy. The problems it addressed, such as the proper extent of individual freedom and the challenging of tradition, resonate as much today as when they were first debated. Of all philosophers, it is arguably Kant who took such questions most seriously, addressing them above all in his celebrated short essay, An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? In this engaging and lucid book, Samuel...
"Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important...
Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. It is also a question that Kant thought about deeply and returned to in many of his writings. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant s philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick R. Frierson assesses Kant s theories and examines his critics.
He begins by explaining how Kant articulates three ways of addressing the question what is the human being: the transcendental, the empirical, and the pragmatic. He then considers some...
Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. It is also a question that Kant thought about dee...
Diese Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag des Bonner Sinologen Rolf Trauzettel (1995) enthalt Beitrage aus Sinologie, Philosophie, Orientalistik, Religionswissenschaft und Germanistik.
Diese Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag des Bonner Sinologen Rolf Trauzettel (1995) enthalt Beitrage aus Sinologie, Philosophie, Orientalistik, Religions...
