Immanuel Kant

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics and to bring about a complete revolution' Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.Marcus Weigelt's lucid re-working of Max Müller's classic translation makes the Critique accessible to a new generation of readers. His informative introduction places the work in context and elucidates Kant's main arguments. This edition also contains a bibliography and explanatory notes.

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. This edition presents the acclaimed translation of the text by Mary Gregor, together with an introduction by Christine M. Korsgaard that examines and explains Kant's argument.

This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar of Kant's practical philosophy, presents the first new translation of the work to appear for many years, together with a substantial and lucid introduction.

O propósito do autor é pensar a ciência e a metafísica, inquirir a possibilidade desta última como ciência através da elucidação da estrutura da matemática e da física. Esta obra sintética expõe a doutrina da sensibilidade, do entendimento e da razão.

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgment, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain natural phenomena as beautiful, says Kant, when we recognize in nature a harmonious order that satisfies the mind's own need for order. The second half of the critique concentrates on the apparent teleology in nature's design of organisms. Kant argues that our minds are inclined to see purpose and order in nature and this is the main principle underlying all of our judgments. Although this might imply a super sensible Designer, Kant insists that we cannot prove a supernatural dimension or the existence of God. Such considerations are beyond reason and are solely the province of faith.

Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened, we must all have the freedom and courage to use our own intellect. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy in which he deals with the basic principles of rights and of virtues. It comprises two parts: the "Doctrine of Right," which deals with the rights that people have or can acquire, and the "Doctrine of Virtue," which deals with the virtues they ought to acquire. Mary Gregor's translation, revised for publication in Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy, is the only complete translation of the whole text. It includes extensive annotation on Kant's difficult and sometimes unfamiliar vocabulary. A new introduction by Roger Sullivan sets the work in its historical and philosophical context.

The idea of perpetual peace was first suggested in the 18th century, when Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre published his essay "Project for Perpetual Peace" anonymously while working as the negotiator for the Treaty of Utrecht. However, the idea did not become well known until the late 18th century. The term perpetual peace became acknowledged when German philosopher Immanuel Kant published his 1795 essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch.

The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition two important texts illustrating Kant's view of history are included for the first time, his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History, as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking?. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliogaphy and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since the first edition.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text.1. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (1784) 2. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) 3. Speculative Beginning of Human History (1786) 4. On the Proverb: That May Be True in Theory, but Is of No Practical Use (1793) 5. The End of All Things (1794) 6. To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795)Glossary of Some German-English Translations. Index.

When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, Observations shows Kant as a man of feeling rather than the dry thinker he often seemed to readers of the three Critiques.

A Monumental Figure of Western Thought Wrestles with the Question of God: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him. His teachings on religion were unorthodox in that they were based on rationality rather than revelation. Tho logically proving God's existence might be impossible, it's morally reasonable to "act as if there be a God." His strictly rational approach was considered so scandalous that the King of Prussia forbid him to teach or write further on religious subjects, which Kant obeyed until the king's death. A work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought, Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form & content of a type of religion grounded in moral reason & meeting the needs of an ethical life.

Kant's attempt to establish the principles behind the faculty of judgment remains one of the most important works on human reason. This third of the philosopher's three Critiques forms the very basis of modern aesthetics by establishing the almost universally accepted framework for debate of aesthetic issues.

Whatever concept one may hold from a metaphysical point of view concerning the freedom of the will, certainly its appearances, which are human actions, like every other natural event are determined by universal laws. However obscure their causes, history, which is concerned with narrating these appearances, permits us to hope that if we attend to the play of freedom of the human will in the large, we may be able to discern a regular movement in it, & that what seems chaotically complex in the single individual may be seen from the human standpoint to be a steady & progressive tho slow evolution of its original endowment. Since the free will has obvious influence upon marriages, births & deaths, they seem to be subject to no rule by which the number of them could be reckoned in advance.

"One of the greatest problems of education," Kant observes, "is how to unite submission to the necessary restraint with the child's capability of exercising his free will." He explores potential solutions to this dilemma, stressing the necessity of treating children as children and not as miniature adults. His positive outlook on the effects of education include a conviction that human nature could be continually improved; to achieve this end, he advocated that pedagogy, the science of education, be raised to academic status and studied at a university level — an innovative notion for the 18th century.

Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new translation of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to his philosophy, also includes selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of his central arguments. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction, explanatory notes, a chronology, and a guide to further reading.

This is the first English translation of all of Kant's writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As well as Kant's most famous moral and political writings, the Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and Toward Perpetual Peace, the volume includes shorter essays and reviews, some of which have never been translated before. There is also an English-German and German-English glossary of key terms.

The second, corrected edition of the first and only complete English translation of Kant's highly influential introduction to philosophy, presenting both the terminological and structural basis for his philosophical system, and offering an invaluable key to his main works, particularly the three Critiques. Extensive editiorial apparatus.

Introduction by Allen W. WoodWith translations by F. Max Müller and Thomas K. AbbottThe writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the relationship between the human mind and all that it encounters and remain the most important influence on our concept of knowledge. As renowned Kant scholar Allen W. Wood writes in his Introduction, Kant “virtually laid the foundation for the way people in the last two centuries have confronted such widely differing subjects as the experience of beauty and the meaning of human history.” Edited and compiled by Dr. Wood, Basic Writings of Kant stands as a comprehensive summary of Kant’s contributions to modern thought, and gathers together the most respected translations of Kant’s key moral and political writings.

Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View essentially reflects the last lectures Kant gave for his annual course in anthropology, which he taught from 1772 until his retirement in 1796. The lectures were published in 1798, with the largest first printing of any of Kant's works. Intended for a broad audience, they reveal not only Kant's unique contribution to the newly emerging discipline of anthropology, but also his desire to offer students a practical view of the world and of humanity's place in it. With its focus on what the human being 'as a free-acting being makes of himself or can and should make of himself,' the Anthropology also offers readers an application of some central elements of Kant's philosophy. This volume offers an annotated translation of the text by Robert B. Louden, together with an introduction by Manfred Kuehn that explores the context and themes of the lectures.

“COMPLETE WOKS OF IMMANUEL KANT” CONTAINS:•AN AESTHETIC BOOK COVER•A BEGINNING CLICK-ABLE TABLE OF CONTENT FOR ALL TITLES •INNER CLICK-ABLE TABLES OF CONTENT FOR ALL INDIVIDUAL BOOKS WITH MULTIPLE CHAPTERS.•NICELY FORMATTED CHAPTERS AND TEXT.AUTHOR’S WORKS INCLUDE:•THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON•THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON•THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT•INTRODUCTION TO THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS•FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS•THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHICS•THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT

Kants 'Kritiken' gehören zu den weltweit meistbeachteten Werken der Philosophie. In der 'Kritik der reinen Vernunft' (1781/87) widmet sich der Königsberger Denker der philosophischen Schlüsselfrage 'Was kann ich wissen?' Die 'Kritik der praktischen Vernunft' (1788) behandelt die allgemeinen Grundlagen der Ethik und die verbindlichen Voraussetzungen sittlichen Handelns. In der 'Kritik der Urteilskraft' (1790) vereint Immanuel Kant seine Ästhetik mit einer Theorie der organischen Natur und vollendet seine kritische Philosophie.

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Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought, represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. This volume presents it, together with three short essays that illuminate it, in a new translation by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates this essential essay in its historical and philosophical context.

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It is in the interest of the totalitarian state that subjects not think for themselves, much less confer about their thinking. Writing under the hostile watch of the Prussian censorship, Immanuel Kant dared to argue the need for open argument, in the university if nowhere else. In this heroic criticism of repression, first published in 1798, he anticipated the crises that endanger the free expression of ideas in the name of national policy. Composed of three sections written at different times, The Conflict of the Faculties dwells on the eternal combat between the "lower" faculty of philosophy, which is answerable only to individual reason, and the faculties of theology, law, and medicine, which get "higher" precedence in the world of affairs and whose teachings and practices are of interest to the government. Kant makes clear, for example, the close alliance between the theological faculty and the government that sanctions its teachings and can resort to force and censorship. All the more vital and precious, then, the faculty of philosophy, which encourages independent thought before action. The first section, "The Conflict of the Philosophy Faculty with the Theology Faculty," is essentially a vindication of the right of the philosophical faculty to freedom of expression. In the other sections the philosopher takes a long and penetrating look at medicine and law, the one preserving the physical "temple" and the other regulating its actions.

A Königsberg, intorno al 1760, circolavano curiose notizie circa le facoltà divinatorie di un dotto svedese, Emanuel Swedenborg, prima scienziato e poi visionario, autore di massicci volumi sulle comunicazioni con gli angeli e gli spiriti. Sollecitato da questa vicenda cittadina, nel 1766 Kant pubblicò un'opera unica nella sua produzione: un ironico saggio in "stile popolare", una satira ora scherzosa ora sferzante che pone il problema dell'anima e della sua immortalità e presenta in nuce quella che sarà la soluzione kantiana, intimamente connessa alla riflessione sull'agire morale. Questo pamphlet ricco di estro e fantasia, il più brillante dei suoi scritti precritici, è dunque il primo esperimento di un processo alle pretese di ragione.

Waxkeep Publishing Collections provide history's greatest authors' collected works in a convenient collection complete with a linked table of contents. Our goal is to provide the most complete, and most easy to read collections in the marketplace.The Immanuel Kant Collection includes the Critique of Pure Reason and 7 other works. The translators for these works are J. M. D. Meiklejohn, Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, J.H. Bernard, and W. Hastie.Included are the following:1.The Critique of Practical Reason 2.Perpetual Peace 3.Critique of Pure Reason 4.The Critique of Judgement 5.The Science of Right 6.The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics 7.Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals 8.Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Immanuel Kant: Aydınlanma’nın büyük düşünürü, eleştirel düşüncenin bilgesi, insan aklının ve ruhunun yorulmaz didikleyicisi. 1804’teki ölümüne kadar, Königsberg’de, münzevi ve bakir yaşamını sürdürürken peş peşe başyapıtlar vermişti.Öteki Dünyaya Yolculuğumun Sahici Hikayesi, Kant’ın ölümünden sonra, 1877’de okurlara ulaşmış ve yüzyılı aşkın bir süre onun ismiyle yayımlanmış olsa bile, bugün aidiyeti konusunda derin şüpheler doğuruyor.Her durumda, Kant uzmanlarının düşünüre sadık ve yaraşır buldukları bir kitap. Şaşırtıcı yanı ise, üslûp ve yaklaşımıyla Jules Verne’den esinlenmiş bir Borges hikâyesini çağrıştırmasından geliyor.“İlk defa 1877 yılında Immanuel Kant imzasıyla yayımlanan bu gizemli metin, öteki dünyaya giden büyük Aydınlanma filozofu Kant’ın, kendinden önceki büyük filozoflarla tartışmasını anlatıyor. Gökyüzünde, Herakleitos, Platon, Leibniz gibi filozoflarca karşılanan Kant, kendisinin büyük takdir göreceğini beklerken, selefleri tarafından acımasızca eleştiriliyor. Yazarı konusunda hâlâ derin şüpheler uyandıran bu metin, hem mizahi hem felsefi, kıyasıya bir hesaplaşma…”