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Book Comparing Kant and Sartre

Download or read book Comparing Kant and Sartre written by Sorin Baiasu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time, commentators viewed Sartre as one of Kant's significant twentieth-century critics. Recent research of their philosophies has discovered that Sartre's relation to Kant's work manifests an 'anxiety of influence', which masks more profound similarities. This volume of newly written comparative essays is the first edited collection on the philosophies of Kant and Sartre. The volume focuses on issues in metaphysics, metaethics and metaphilosophy, and explores the similarities and differences between the two authors, as well as the complementarity of some of their views, particularly on autonomy, happiness, self-consciousness, evil, temporality, imagination and the nature of philosophy.

Book Freedom As a Value

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Detmer
  • Publisher : Open Court Publishing
  • Release : 2013-12-15
  • ISBN : 0812698630
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Freedom As a Value written by David Detmer and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre’s ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.

Book Morality and Freedom in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Download or read book Morality and Freedom in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant written by William Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kant on Freedom

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  • Author : Owen Ware
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-06-08
  • ISBN : 1009083813
  • Pages : 117 pages

Download or read book Kant on Freedom written by Owen Ware and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's early critics maintained that his theory of freedom faces a dilemma: either it reduces the will's activity to strict necessity by making it subject to the causality of the moral law, or it reduces the will's activity to blind chance by liberating it from rules of any kind. This Element offers a new interpretation of Kant's theory against the backdrop of this controversy. It argues that Kant was a consistent proponent of the claim that the moral law is the causal law of a free will, and that the supposed ability of free will to choose indifferently between options is an empty concept. Freedom, for Kant, is a power to initiate action from oneself, and the only way to exercise this power is through the law of one's own will, the moral law. Immoral action is not thereby rendered impossible, but it also does not express a genuine ability.

Book Freedom and Reason in Kant  Schelling  and Kierkegaard

Download or read book Freedom and Reason in Kant Schelling and Kierkegaard written by Michelle Kosch and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency from Kant through Schelling to Kierkegaard.

Book Fallen Freedom

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  • Author : Gordon E. Michalson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1990-11-29
  • ISBN : 0521383978
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Fallen Freedom written by Gordon E. Michalson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study Professor Michalson attempts to clarify the complex tangle of issues connected with Kant's doctrines of radical evil and moral regeneration, and to set the problems resulting from these doctrines in an interpretive framework that tries to make sense of the instability of his overall position. In his late work Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793), Kant charts out these doctrines in a manner that represents a fresh development in his own thinking on moral and relgious matters, apparently at variance with the mainstream Enlightenment outlook which Kant otherwise embodies. His position appears to amount to a retrieval of the supposedly outmoded Christian doctrine of original sin, and this ambivalence is seen to stem from his desire to do justice both to the Protestant Christian, and the Enlightenment rationalist, tradition, which weigh equally heavily upon him. In this study Professor Michalson attempts to clarify the complex tangle of issues connected with Kant's doctrines of radical evil and moral regeneration, and to set the problems resulting from these doctrines in an interpretive framework that tries to make sense of the instability of his overall position.

Book Kant and the Creation of Freedom

Download or read book Kant and the Creation of Freedom written by Christopher J. Insole and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant is a key thinker in the emergence of our contemporary sense of what 'human freedom' is, and why it is important. This book shows that important features of Kant's philosophy were forged out of difficulties he had in reconciling his belief in God as creator with the concept of human freedom.

Book Freedom and Anthropology in Kant s Moral Philosophy

Download or read book Freedom and Anthropology in Kant s Moral Philosophy written by Patrick R. Frierson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's theory of freedom and his moral anthropology. The point of departure is the apparent conflict between three claims to which Kant is committed: that human beings are transcendentally free, that moral anthropology studies the empirical influences on human beings, and that more anthropology is morally relevant. Frierson shows why this conflict is only apparent. He 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 a work which integrates Kant's anthropology with his philosophy as a whole, this book will be an unusually important source of study for all Kant scholars and advanced students of Kant.

Book Kant on Freedom  Law  and Happiness

Download or read book Kant on Freedom Law and Happiness written by Paul Guyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant is often portrayed as the author of a rigid system of ethics in which adherence to a formal and universal principle of morality - the famous categorical imperative - is an end itself, and any concern for human goals and happiness a strictly secondary and subordinate matter. Such a theory seems to suit perfectly rational beings but not human beings. The twelve essays in this collection by one of the world's preeminent Kant scholars argue for a radically different account of Kant's ethics. They explore an interpretation of the moral philosophy according to which freedom is the fundamental end of human action, but an end that can only be preserved and promoted by adherence to moral law. By radically revising the traditional interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy and by showing how Kant's coherent liberalism can guide us in current debates, Paul Guyer will find an audience across moral and political philosophy, intellectual history, and political science.

Book The Basis of Freedom

Download or read book The Basis of Freedom written by Edmund Morris Miller and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kant s Theory of Freedom

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  • Author : Henry E. Allison
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1990-09-28
  • ISBN : 9780521387088
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Kant s Theory of Freedom written by Henry E. Allison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers critical literature on the subject.

Book Kant and Sartre

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  • Author : S. Baiasu
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2011-08-26
  • ISBN : 0230295169
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Kant and Sartre written by S. Baiasu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies arguing that Kant was one of Sartre's most significant predecessors. The book identifies several fundamental theses of Sartre's practical philosophy, and shows Sartre to be closer to Kant in this respect than many contemporary Kantian theories are.

Book Jean Paul Sartre  To Freedom Condemned

Download or read book Jean Paul Sartre To Freedom Condemned written by Justus Streller and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVJean-Paul Sartre’s most influential existentialist work, Being and Nothingness, broken down into its most fertile ideas In To Freedom Condemned, Sartre’s most influential work, Being and Nothingness, is laid bare, presenting the philosopher’s key ideas regarding existentialism. Covering the philosophers Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl, and mulling over such topics as love, God, death, and freedom, To Freedom Condemned goes on to consider Sartre’s treatment of the complexities around human existence./divDIV/div/div

Book Dostoevsky and Kant

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  • Author : Evgenia Cherkasova
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9042026103
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Dostoevsky and Kant written by Evgenia Cherkasova and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart." Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University Social Philosophy (SP), in conjunction with the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, SUNY Cortland, explores theoretical and applied issues in contemporary social philosophy, drawing on a variety of philosophical traditions.

Book Three Philosophical Moralists

Download or read book Three Philosophical Moralists written by George C. Kerner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique and up-to-date introduction to moral philosophy. Kerner defines ethics as the study of what makes life worth living and gives it meaning. Rather than cataloging how various ethical theories bear on ethical issues, he poses the central question: is objective moral knowlege possible? To address that question, he provides an exacting analysis of the works of Mill, Kant, and Sartre, and finally agrees with Sartre that such knowlege is not possible; in morality there are no objective answers but only questions direted at our deep subjectivity.

Book Freedom of the Human Person

Download or read book Freedom of the Human Person written by Zbigniew Josef Waleszczuk and published by BWV Verlag. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom is the key issue for both Karol Wojtyla and Immanuel Kant that connects the Polish with the German philosopher. This analysis aims to show the importance of Kant's ethics in the work of Karol Wojtyla. Kant's paradigm shift in the anthropological thought was revolutionary. The categorical imperative obliges each person to act morally and thus elevates them. It is the foundation of human dignity, not only for Kant but also for Wojtyla. Who is man? Is man free? Or is materialistic man determined and arrested in immanence? What should man do? Man is gifted with freedom. He is a person because he has the capacity to act. Wojtyla and Kant put special emphasis on a person's power of selfdetermination that reveals itself through the experience as a freely acting person. The realisation of the personal norm - the categorical imperative - was defined by both thinkers as a fulfilment of freedom. Freedom shall be fulfilled in the responsible act, which reveals the person's power of love.