Kant A Complete Introduction
Book - 2014
A comprehensive introduction to understanding Kant and his theories. Wicks introduces the reader to all of Kant's key works. He examines Kant's three key philosophical questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope?
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- Published
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London :
Teach Yourself
2014.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- x, 246 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781444191264
- Background. Life and writings ; Kant's way of thinking and arguing
- What can we know? Kant's theory of knowledge ; Space and time: the structure of the faculty of sensibility ; Aristotelian logic: the structure of the faculty of understanding ; The transcendental deduction ; Substance, causality and objectivity ; Metaphysical knowledge of the human soul ; Metaphysical knowledge of the world and of God's existence
- What should we do? Freedom and moral awareness ; The morality of self-respect ; God, virtue and evil
- What is the meaning of beauty? Beauty in its formal purity ; Human beauty and fine art ; Sublimity, beauty, biology and morality
- For what may we hope? Perpetual peace as the next great step
- Conclusion: Kant's influence.