Kant Selections

by Beck, Lewis White

• ISBN13: 9780023078217
• ISBN10: 0023078219
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-01-05
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Library of Liberal Arts title.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(24)
I. An Enquiry into the Distinctness of the Fundamental Principles of Natural Theology and Morals (The Prize Essay)	25	(24)
Editor's Introduction	27	(22)
II. On the Form and Principles of the Sensible and the Intelligible World (The Inaugural Dissertation)	49	(28)
Editor's Introduction	51	(26)
III. Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz, February 21, 1772	77	(8)
Editor's Introduction	79	(6)
IV. Critique of Pure Reason	85	(64)
Editor's Introduction	87	(8)
A. Preface and Introduction	95	(9)
THE COPERNICAM REVOLUTION IN METAPHYSICS	95	(9)
THE ORIGIN OF OUR KNOWLEDGE	104	(1)
B. Transcendental Aesthetic	104	(6)
INTUITION	104	(1)
SPACE	105	(1)
TIME	106	(1)
SPACE, TIME, AND MATHEMATICS	107	(2)
APPEARANCE AND ILLUSION	109	(1)
C. Transcendental Logic: The Analytic of Concepts	110	(5)
METAPHYSICAL DEDUCTION OF THE CATEGORIES	110	(2)
TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION OF THE CATEGORIES	112	(3)
D. Transcendental Logic: The Analytic of Principles	115	(10)
OF THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLE OF ALL SYNTHETICAL JUDGMENTS	115	(2)
THE SECOND ANALOGY OF EXPERIENCE: THE LAW OF CAUSATION	117	(3)
THE POSTULATES OF ALL EMPIRICAL THINKING AND THE REFUTATION OF IDEALISM	120	(5)
E. Transcendental Logic: Transcendental Dialectic	125	(24)
INTRODUCTION	125	(1)
TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM AND EMPIRICAL REALISM	125	(2)
THE ANTITHETIC OF PURE REASON	127	(1)
INTRODUCTION	127	(1)
THE THIRD ANTIMONY: FREEDOM AND NATURAL LAW	128	(2)
EXPLANATION OF THE COSMOLOGICAL IDEA OF FREEDOM IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNIVERSAL NECESSITY OF NATURE	130	(6)
CRITIQUE OF RATIONAL THEOLOGY	136	(1)
IMPOSSIBILITY OF AN ONTOLOGICAL PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD	137	(4)
IMPOSSIBILITY OF A COSMOLOGICAL PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD	141	(3)
IMPOSSIBILITY OF PHYSICO-THEOLOGICAL PROOF	144	(5)
V. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics	149	(86)
Editor's Introduction	151	(84)
VI. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals	235	(64)
Editor's Introduction	237	(62)
VII. Critique of Practical Reason	299	(30)
Editor's Introduction	301	(3)
A. The Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason	304	(14)
THE ANTINOMY OF PRACTICAL REASON	306	(1)
CRITICAL RESOLUTION OF THE ANTINOMY	307	(4)
THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL AS A POSTULATE OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON	311	(1)
THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AS A POSTULATE OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON	311	(6)
OF THE WISE ADAPTATION OF MAN'S COGNITIVE FACULTIES TO HIS PRACTICAL VOCATION	317	(1)
B. Moral Education	318	(11)
VIII. Critique of the Faculty of Judgment	329	(82)
Editor's Introduction	331	(10)
A. Introduction (Sections II-VIII)	341	(12)
B. Critique of the Faculty of Aesthetical Judgment	353	(34)
ANALYTIC OF THE BEAUTIFUL (Sections 1-3, 5-14, 16-22)	353	(23)
ANALYTIC OF THE SUBLIME (Sections 23-28)	376	(3)
DEDUCTION OF PUTE ANESTHETICAL JUDGMENTS: FINE ARTS AND GENIUS (Sections 44-46)	379	(3)
DIALECTIC OF THE FACULTY OF AESTHETICAL JUDGMENT (Sections 56, 57, 59)	382	(5)
C. Critique of the Faculty of Teleological Judgment	387	(24)
ANALYTIC OF THE FACULTY OF TELEOLOGICAL JUDGMENT (Sections 64, 65, 69)	387	(5)
DIALECTIC OF THE FACULTY OF TELEOLOGICAL JUDGMENT (Sections 70, 71, 75-78)	392	(16)
METHODOLOGY OF THE FACULTY OF TELEOLOGICAL JUDGMENT (Section 84)	408	(3)
IX. Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View	411	(16)
Editor's Introduction	413	(14)
X. Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch	427	(32)
Editor's Introduction	429	(30)
XI. What Is Enlightenment?	459	(10)
Editor's Introduction	461	(8)
Bibliographical Essay	469