Kant on Freedom and Human Nature

Auteur

Luigi Filieri is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kant-Forschungsstelle of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Among his publications: Sellars and Kant on Givenness and Intuition (Phänomenologische Forschungen 2, 2021), Concept-less Schemata: The Reciprocity of Imagination and Understanding in Kant's Aesthetics (Kantian Review XXVI/4, 2021), and The Highest Good as the Ideal of Reason in the Canon of the first Critique (forthcoming in Kant-Studien).

Sofie Møller is Junior Professor of Kant and German Idealism at the Universität zu Köln. She was a research associate at the Research Center "Normative Orders" at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and published Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason (2020).

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This book provides new readings of Kant's account of human nature. The chapters show that Kant's point is not to state once and for all what the human being actually is, but to unite pure reason's efforts within a unitary teleological perspective.

Contenu

Introduction: Human Freedom and Human Nature Luigi Filieri and Sofie Møller Part 1: The Legislation of the Realm of Freedom 1. Freedom Within Nature Allen Wood 2. Kant's Answer to the Question "What Is the Human Being?" Marcus Willaschek 3. What Is Humanity? Sofie Møller 4. Maximizing Freedom? Paul Guyer on the Value of Freedom and Reason in Kant Heiner F. Klemme 5. Putting Freedom First: Some Reflections on Paul Guyer's Interpretation of Kant's Moral Theory Herlinde Pauer-Studer Part 2: The Legislation of the Realm of Nature 6. Kant on the Exhibition (Darstellung) of Infinite Magnitudes Rolf-Peter Horstmann 7. The Problem of Intersubjectivity in Kant's Critical Philosophy Konstantin Pollok 8. Kant on Conviction and Persuasion Gabriele Gava Part 3: Bridging the Gulf between the Realms of Nature and Freedom 9. Why is There Something, Rather than Nothing? Kant on the Final End of Creation Reed Winegar 10. Kant's Philosophy of History, as Response to Existential Despair Rachel Zuckert 11. Mendelssohn and Kant on Human Progress: A Neo-Stoic Debate Melissa Merritt 12. Aesthetic Subjectivity in Ugly Matters: A Comparison Between Kant and Mendelssohn Anne Pollok Postscript: Kant on Freedom and Human Nature: Responses Paul Guyer