Patrick Frierson draws on Kant's transcendental idealism and his theory of the will and describes how empirical influences can affect the empirical expression of one's will in a way that is morally significant but still consistent with Kant's concept of freedom. As the first work on Kant to integrate his anthropology with his philosophy as a whole, it is an unusually important source of study for all Kant scholars and advanced students of Kant.
Patrick Frierson draws on Kant's transcendental idealism and his theory of the will and describes how empirical influences can affect the empirical ex...
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...
