Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors - The Vocation of Humankind, 1774-1800

Informationen zum Autor George di Giovanni is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. Klappentext George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought. Zusammenfassung George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought but also reveals how this thought was being held hostage to unwarranted metaphysical assumptions that caused much confusion and rendered the First Critique vulnerable to being reabsorbed into modes of thought typical of Enlightenment popular philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the vocation of humankind, 1774; 2. The taming of Kant: popular philosophy; 3. The intractable Kant: Schultz, Jacobi, Reinhold; 4. Of human freedom and necessity; 5. Kant's moral system; 6. The difference that Fichte made; 7. The parting of the ways; 8. The vocation of humankind revisited, 1800.

Product details

• Authors: George Di Giovanni, George Di Giovanni
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521844512
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84451-2
• No. of pages: 390
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day