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...
This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes little-known essays as well as personal notes and fragments that reveal the emergence of Kant's complex philosophical ideas. Those familiar with Kant's...
This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The mater...
