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1. Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2010-04-16)
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It's Too Good for Me to Read
Making the ideas stick |
2. Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysic Of Morals by Immanuel Kant | |
Paperback: 84
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(2009-12-02)
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U concise introduction to Kant's thought
Read this book more than once |
3. The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant | |
Paperback: 332
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(2006-01-01)
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A foundation stone of modern philosophy |
4. The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2010-07-24)
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5. Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Classics) by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2008-01-29)
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I dare you to read this book!
Misses some vital points
Critique of Pure Reason
Excellent Translation and Introduction
the Über-translation of the Kritik... |
6. Kant: A Biography by Manfred Kuehn | |
Paperback: 576
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(2002-08-19)
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Explore the life of a Prussian Genius
indispensable
A clear view on one of the greatest masters After I read this book I really seemed to understand his philosophy much beter. I feel I have a good idea about what were his major concerns and what was it that he tried to solve and prove. I have a good idea now about what the Critique Of Pure Reason is, such as other works as the other 2 Critiques & Groundworks. If you want to read the works of Kant himself, make sure you pick this one up first and learn it by heart. Its as best as any introduction can get on his work, A truly homage to a great master. There are besides that plenty of details about his personal life. His love for Frederik The Great, plenty of stuff from his students, how they thought about him, and what kept him occupied in his free hours. And there we get a very different Kant than the one that went into history for so far.
This is modern, but it doesn't rock. One of the things that makes philosophy interesting is the range of ideas which it offers to anyone who is trying to think of something to say about his enemies.Fichte was a contemporary of Kant, in trouble with the authorities from 1997 to 1800 when he was suspected of being an atheist because he thought a moral world order provided a more godly deity than the underhanded Christians of his day were used to.This was very close to the end of Kant's life, and Kant's circle of friends consoled themselves with ideas like:"The name `Fichte' means pine, and bad proofs were sometimes called `proofs of pine.'Furthermore, to `lead someone behind the pines' could mean to be deceptive.Some of Kant's acquaintances agreed."(Manfred Kuehn, KANT, A BIOGRAPHY, p. 391). I was most interested in examining this book because it considers an early work, included in Kant's THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY, 1755-1770, on Emanuel Swedenborg, DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER ILLUSTRATED BY DREAMS OF METAPHYSICS.The existence of the work itself, like Freud's summary ON DREAMS (1901), drawn from Freud's on INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS (1900), shows a strong affinity for the kind of thinking about Christianity which is much closer to a modern understanding than most people would expect from the contemporaries of Kant and Swedenborg.Kant might be much more modern than Swedenborg because he willingly states a conclusion, as "a matter of policy, in this as in other cases, to fit the pattern of one's plans to one's powers, and if one cannot obtain the great, to restrict oneself to the mediocre."(p. 174).Anyone who would consider this book mediocre ought to reflect on the scholarly norms that preclude this kind of writing from exhibiting the outrageous emotional tricks which are usually displayed in rock 'n' roll, movies, state lotteries, election campaigns, or exciting books.It is the scholars who live in a separate world, and Kant will always be a great example of how it can be done.
An Excellent Biography We sometimes think of Kant as having lived a boring and dull life--that he was in fact as mundane and interesting a person as the schedule he kept (shop owners in the marketplace would often set their clocks to his daily walks).But the picture of Kant that Kuehn provides us with here is radically different.Sure, Kant lead a regular and ordered life, but Kuehn breathes accurate life into pedestrian images of Kant that we may have learned in school (or in textbooks). ... Read more |
7. Lectures on Ethics (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2001-03-19)
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Understand Kantian ethics, it is not easy
Ethics and Morality
This is the best introduction to Kant's ethics. This volume should not be read from the first page to the last.Rather, you should browse through it.The table of contents lists specific topics, such as sex, suicide, prayer, and rights.The novice will enjoy selecting topics of particular interest from that table.As one becomes more familiar with the easier issues of interest, the more challenging sections are less difficult.(The one drawback is the lack of an index.) Everyone interested in any moral issue should carefully read this vital work in classical ethics. ... Read more |
8. Lectures on Metaphysics (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2001-10-01)
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Finally, A Kant Book That Kan Neitzche was a fool!Kant lives on!
If Kant is Your Haupt Mann This is Your Book * The publishers at Cambridge have finally answered our prayers with a paperback version of this tour-de-force.At only 38 Samolians this could well be the new chart busting "Mover and Shaker" in Amazon.com's Kantian line-up. Find out why cognitive giants are praising this translation as "brilliant,""definitive"and "bodacious!" ... Read more |
9. Kant's Critiques: The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason, The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2008-03-19)
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10. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2010-05-06)
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Understand Kantian ethics, it is not easy
Read it, ponder it, implement it... |
11. Kant: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Roger Scruton | |
Paperback: 160
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(2001-12-06)
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The Best Explanation of Kant's Thought I've Run Across
A quick FYI
hard to make Kant any easier
A very accessible introduction to Kant
Only 4 stars because any short introduction doesn't give Kant his due |
12. Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Torchbooks) by Immanuel Kant | |
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(1960-06-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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. Kant's teachings on religion were unorthodox in that they were based on rationality rather than revelation. Though logically proving God's existence might be impossible, it is 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 and content of a type of religion grounded in moral reason and meeting the needs of an ethical life. Customer Reviews (5)
Bought for mom...
so great, it makes the usual religion piffle
Which translation?
What can be done in the space between your ears!
Kant and Religion |
13. Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) by Immanuel Kant | |
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(2003-06-02)
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This book has been studied, not just read The third translation, DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER ELUCIDATED BY DREAMS OF METAPHYSICS, appeared in 1992.It is the work of David Walford in collaboration with Ralf Meerbote, both of them established Kant scholars.The intention of Walford's edition is straightforward.It appears in a collection of Kant's precritical writings in the first volume of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY, 1755-1770. Unfortunately, the only entry for David Walford in the index of KANT ON SWEDENBORG is to the page with the information above.Kant's DREAMS was published as an anonymous pamphlet, and did not contain the scholarly notes which appear on pages 156-183 of KANT ON SWEDENBORG, many of which refer to this book (henceforth Walford).Readers of KANT ON SWEDENBORG who would like to check the citations for this information need this book to refer to: To appreciate the continuity of Kant's conception of matter throughout his career both before and after DREAMS, see . . . Walford, 53-65 . . . Walford offers two sources for this argument: . . . On the impenetrability of matter, see . . . Walford, 56-60: . . . Walford, 218 and . . . Walford, 260. On the repulsive force of matter, see . . . Walford 56-60; . . . Walford, 218 and . . . Walford, 260. On materials entities filling the space in which they operate, see . . . Walford, 56-57 . . . Kant makes essentially the same distinction, between "virtual" and "local" presence, in . . . Walford, 409-410; . . . See also . . . Walford, 56-57; INQUIRY (AK 2: 286-288; Walford, 259-261). All of the above notes pertain to paragraphs 3-7 of Part I, Chapter 1, "A Tangled Metaphysical Knot That Can Be Either Untied or Cut as One Pleases."The next note in KANT ON SWEDENBORG attempts to locate a source for Kant's remark, in paragraph 7, "Therefore, I would demand a strong proof to find absurd what the scholastics said:`My soul is wholly in my body, and wholly in each of its parts.' "Johnson's note 18."Walford(449, n11) claims that this phrase derives from Daries . . . The idea is, however, clearly much older:cf. Thomas Hobbes . . ." and goes on to Plotinus (c. 204/5-270), ENNEAD IV.7 "On the Immortality of the Soul," 8.2.Johnson carefully studied Kant's later writings for signs that Kant had adopted elements of Swedenborg's thoughts for his own use.He found lecture notes that Mrongovius dated to the winter semester of 1782-3 in which Kant lectured:"The ancients also said:anima est tota in corpore, sed totum tamen in parte ejus" in latin, of course, and the METAPHYSIK VIGILANTIUS had a different variation. Kant did not attempt a detailed description of the ideas of Swedenborg until Part II of DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER, Chapter 2, Ecstatic Journey of an Enthusiast Through the Spirit World."His paragraphs are long, and my favorite part doesn't come until the final sentence of the third paragraph."Thus, although I have robbed the reader of some of the moments that he may have otherwise devoted with no great benefit to the reading of thorough books on just this material, I have at the same time, for the delicacy of his tastes, through the omission of many wild chimeras, brought the quintessence of the book to a few drops, for which I expect from him just as much thanks as a certain patient believed he was obliged to the doctors who let him eat the bark of the quinquina when they could have easily made him eat the whole tree."(Johnson translation, KANT ON SWEDENBORG, p. 50). I can't decide how many pages on this anyone should want, but now you can shop around for what you would consider most suitable. ... Read more |
14. Opus Postumum (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) by Immanuel Kant | |
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(1995-02-24)
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15. Kritik der Urteilskraft (German Edition) by Immanuel Kant, Karl Vorländer | |
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16. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns by Immanuel Kant | |
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Which translation of the Grundlegung is right for you? If, however, you have a serious interest in Kant, then I would recommend the volume entitled _Practical Philosophy_, published as part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant._Practical Philosophy_ includes the Groundwork, the Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals (all translated by Gregor), in addition to the essays on Enlightenment and Perpetual Peace.
Profound, Inspiring, and, Of Course, Difficult And what makes the Groundwork especially interesting is its clear statement of a distinctive Kantian vision of the nature of morality.It's not just that this work includes original and exceptionally insightful philosophizing, but that there's a vision of morality underlying the details, and it's a general conception of morality in which there is something inspiring and awesome.The absolutism, the lack of concern for consequences and for human nature, the emphasis on a sort of radical freedom, the distrust of human feeling, the emphasis on our rationality--all of these are elements of Kant's emphasis on the purity of ethics.(Later works reveal that Kant's thinking about these issues was considerably more complex, but there is something fundamental about the presentation here--even if it doesn't provide a wholly accurate account of all his thinking.)Moral action, he claims, is action in which we act for duty's sake, and acting for duty's sake requires an independence of one's actions from our ordinary concerns, from everyday motives and inclinations, from self-interest, and from nearly all human feeling.And since moral action is free action, understanding moral action in this way requires Kant to carve out a sphere of freedom in which we are the authors of our actions. It's not just that we're free of external constraints in moral action; we also need to be free of the characteristics qualities of our personalities and of the distinctive patterns of thought and feeling that constitute human nature.Nevertheless, Kant claims that the moral law is one that comes from within--though not from our contingent feelings and desires.It is instead a law that we give to ourselves as rational beings.In moral action we act in ways that express our natural as rational beings, and only as rational beings.So act morally, acting with a wholly good will, is action in which we reveal ourselves to beings deserving of the dignity that comes with being a free and rational being. Now, even though this is intended as an introduction to Kant's moral thought, this isn't an easy work.It needs to be read and re-read (and, I suppose, re-read) to be fully understood and appreciated.I've never found Kant as difficult and obscure as his reputation would suggest, but as a writer of philosophical prose he's certainly not the caliber of, say, Hume or Descartes.Still, Kant's ideas in the Groundwork, while subtle and sometimes elusive, are profound and original, and this book is a must-read for anyone interested in philosophical ethics. Kant's aim in the Groundwork is to discover the fundamental principle of morality.In the first section he attempts to derive this fundamental principle from ordinary moral thought.In particular, he attempts to derive this principle from considerations concerning what is unconditionally good.Kant claims that the only thing that is unconditionally good is a good will.Moreover, its goodness is not a matter of the results of acting on a good will; it is good in itself.As a matter of fact, Kant claims that the results of an action done with a good will and the aims and inclinations of the agent with the good will are morally insignificant. What, then, is it to act with a good will?It is, Kant argues, a matter of doing one's duty for duty's sake, regardless of one's feeling and the results of doing so.What is it to act from duty's sake? It is to act from principles that accord with the fundamental principle of morality.And here we get the first formulation of the fundamental principle of morality: act only on maxims that you can consistently will to be universal laws. In other words, if one is unable to will the principle of one's action to become a universal law, the action is morally impermissible. In the second section of the Groundwork Kant attempts to draw the same conclusion from some philosophical points about the nature of duty.He begins by claiming that our knowledge of our duty is a priori and based on the exercise of reason.He then argues that facts about our duties are necessary facts, and that this shows that they must be based on a categorical imperative: that is, that our duties apply to us insofar as we are rational beings, irrespective of the contingent aspects of their nature.And, Kant argues, the one categorical imperative is the fundamental principle of morality mentioned above.He then applies this principle to some examples in order to display just how it grounds our duties in particular cases. The rest of the second section is filled with lots of interesting, albeit abstruse, ideas.First, Kant attempts to ground the categorical imperative in something that is of unconditional worth.What is that something?The existence of rational beings, which, he says, is an end in itself.And this leads to a second formulation of the categorical imperative: (ii) act only in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in the person of yourself or someone else, as an end and never merely as a means. This section also includes a third formulation of the categorical imperative: (iii) act only on maxims that you could will to become universal laws legislated by your own will.This formulation encapsulates Kant's claim that we can achieve autonomy only by acting in accordance with the moral law.Conformity with the moral law does not constrain our freedom since we legislate the moral law for ourselves.The moral law is not forced on us from without; its source is to be found in our own rational nature.Indeed, it is only by acting morally that we are able to achieve genuine freedom by transcending the contingent desires and inclinations that are beyond our control. Of course, that doesn't come close to summing up the Groundwork.But it's a start. ... Read more |
17. Critique of the Power of Judgment (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) by Immanuel Kant | |
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18. The Works of Immanuel Kant by Immanuel Kant | |
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19. Theoretical Philosophy after 1781 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) by Immanuel Kant | |
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20. To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch by Immanuel Kant, Ted Humphrey | |
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Editorial Review Product Description What is our obligation to pursue peace? Can intervention in the affairs of another sovereign nation be justified? Who, if any one, has the right to intervene? -- In this short essay, Kant completes his political theory and philosophy of history, considering the prospects for peace among nations and addressing questions that remain central to our thoughts about nationalism, war, and peace. Ted Humphrey provides an eminently readable translation, along with a brief introduction that sketches Kant’s argument. |
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