The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century
has been to determine whether the essential principles of both
knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by
an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this
enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason 1781 shook
the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that
the basic principles of the natural science are imposed on reality
by human sensibility and understanding, and thus that human beings
are also free to impose their own free and rational agency on the
world. This volume is the only systematic and comprehensive account
of the full range of Kant''s writings available, and the first major
overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An
internationally recognised team of Kant scholars explore Kant''s
conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of
science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the
philosophy of religion.
目錄:
Introduction: the starry heavens and the moral law Paul
Guyer
1. Kant''s intellectual development: 1746–1781 Frederick C.
Beiser
2. The Transcendental Aesthetic Charles Parsons
3. Functions of thought and the synthesis of intuitions J. Michael
Young
4. The transcendental deduction of the categories Paul Guyer
5. Causal laws and the foundations of natural science Michael
Friedman
6. Empirical, rational and transcendental psychology: psychology as
science and as philosophy Gary Hatfield
7. Reason and practice of science Thomas E. Wartenberg
8. The critique of metaphysics: Kant and traditional ontology Karl
Ameriks
9. Vindicating reason Onora O''Neill
10. Autonomy, obligation and virtue: an overview of Kant''s moral
philosophy J. B. Schneewind
11. Politics, freedom and order: Kant''s political philosophy
Wolfgang Kersting
12. Taste, sublimity and genius: the aesthetics of nature and art
Eva Schaper
13. Rational theology, moral faith and religion Allen W. Wood
14. The first twenty years of critique: the Spinoza connection
George di Gionvanni.