Tag: Reason

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Major Works

  • Critique of Pure Reason

    - Guyer, Paul, and Allen Wood, eds. Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
    Excerpt: “Experience is no doubt the first product of our understanding, while employed in fashioning the raw material of our sensations. It is therefore our first instruction, and in its progress so rich in new lessons that the chain of all future… More

  • Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

    - Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by Mary Gregor and Jens Timmermann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
    Excerpt: “Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. Formal philosophy is called logic. Material philosophy, however, has to do with determinate objects and the laws to which they are subject, is again twofold;… More

  • Metaphysics of Morals

    - Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. Edited by Lara Denis. Translated by Mary Gregor. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    Excerpt: “The Science of Right has for its object the principles of all the laws which it is possible to promulgate by external legislation. Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law;… More

  • Critique of Practical Reason

    - Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason. Edited and translated by Mary J. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    Excerpt: “The theoretical use of reason was concerned with objects of the cognitive faculty only, and a critical examination of it with reference to this use applied properly only to the pure faculty of cognition; because this raised the suspicion,… More

Commentary

  • Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity

    - Wolff, Robert Paul, Kant's Theory of Mental Activity, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1963.
    From a review: “Professor Wolff holds —rightly, I think—that there are 3 keys to the Kantian doctrine. The 1st is the epistemological turn; that is, the progressive substitution of epistemological for ontological or metaphysical considerations.… More

  • The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

    - Strawson, P.F., The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, London: Methuen, 1966.
    From a review: No book on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is without its difficulties. On the one hand there is the tendency toward slavish exegesis, usually of the sort that avoids basic philosophical problems by submerging them in the very Kantian… More

  • Kant’s Moral Religion

    - Wood, A., Kant's Moral Religion, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.
    From the publisher: In Kant’s Moral Religion, Allen W. Wood argues that Kant’s doctrine of religious belief if consistent with his best critical thinking and, in fact, that the “moral arguments”—along with the faith they… More

  • The Autonomy of Reason

    - Wolff, Robert Paul, The Autonomy of Reason. New York: Harper, 1973.
    Excerpt: “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is probably the most difficult short work in modern philosophical literature. Despite its great popularity—it is, after the Critique of Pure Reason, the most widely read and commented upon of… More

  • The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant’s Philosophy and Politics

    - Meld Shell, Susan. The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant’s Philosophy and Politics, Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
    From a review: So what little is available in English on Kant’s Rechtslehre that’s any book length treatments is welcome. Susan Shell’s book must be more than welcome since it brings a perception that is both deep and refreshing to a text… More

  • Kant’s Theory of Mind

    - Ameriks, K., Kant's Theory of Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
    Excerpt: “Until recently cots philosophy of mind received little attention. This is remarkable for a number of reasons. The nature of the mind obviously should be of central importance in an idealistic philosophy such as Kant. Furthermore Kant’s… More

  • The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte

    - Beiser, F.C. The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
    Excerpt: “During the period between Kant’s first Kritik and Fichte’s first Wissenschaftslehre (1781-1794),  full also furs and devoted themselves to a single fundamental problem. They returned again and again to this problem, though it… More

  • The Coherence of Kant’s Doctrine of Freedom

    - Carnois, Bernard, The Coherence of Kant's Doctrine of Freedom. D. Booth, tr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
    From the publisher: “The term freedom appears in many contexts in Kant’s work, ranging from the cosmological to the moral to the theological. Can the diverse meanings Kant gave to the term be ordered systematically? To ask that question is to… More

  • Kant and the Claims of Knowledge

    - Guyer, P., Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
    From the publisher: “This book offers a radically new account of the development and structure of the central arguments of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance, causation, and… More

  • The Art of Judgement

    - Caygill, Howard. The Art of Judgement, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
    From the publisher: This original reading of Kant’s third critique, “The Critique of Judgement-Power”, provides an innovative view of the role of judgement in current theoretical debates, in both the humanities and social sciences. Judgement… More

  • Constructions of Reason

    - O'Neill, Onora, Constructions of Reason, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
    From the publisher: Two centuries after they were published, Kant’s ethical writings are as much admired and imitated as they have ever been, yet serious and long-standing accusations of internal incoherence remain unresolved. Onora O’Neill traces… More

  • Immanuel Kant’s Moral Theory

    - Sullivan, R., Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
    From the publisher: “This comprehensive, lucid, and systematic commentary on Kant’s practical (or moral) philosophy is sure to become a standard reference work. Kant is arguably the most important moral philosopher of the modern period, yet, prior… More

  • Freedom and the End of Reason by Richard Velkley

    - Velkley, Richard. Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
    In this very significant work, Richard Velkley of Tulane University draws out the theoretical influence of Rousseau on Kant in a novel and exciting way. In so doing, he sheds new light on the meaning of key terms and topics in Rousseau’s practical and… More

  • Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant’s Moral Theory

    - Hill, T., Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
    From a review: This book brings together eleven papers on Kantian ethics which Thomas Hill wrote between 1971 and 1989. Nine of the eleven deal quite directly with the exegesis of Kantian texts on moral philosophy or the critical exposition of parts of… More

  • The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant’s Philosophy

    - D. Henrich, The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy, Harvard University Press, 1994.
    From the publisher: Kant holds a key position in the history of modern philosophy as the last great figure to belong both to the Anglo-American analytic tradition and the Continental tradition. A scholar of Kant and German idealism, Dieter Henrich combines an… More

  • The Unity of Reason

    - Nieman, S., The Unity of Reason, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
    From the publisher: The Unity of Reason is the first major study of Kant’s account of reason. It argues that Kant’s wide-ranging interests and goals can only be understood by redirecting attention from epistemological questions of his work to… More

  • Kant’s Transcendental Idealism

    - Allison, H., Kant's Transcendental Idealism, revised and expanded version, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
    Excerpt: “In spite of some sympathy shown in recent years for a vaguely Kantian sort of idealism or, better, anti-realism, which argues for the dependence of our conception of reality on our concepts and/or linguistic practices, cots transcendental… More

  • Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

    - Kukla, R., (ed.), Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
    From the publisher: “This 2006 volume explores the relationship between Kant’s aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially… More

  • Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary

    - Timmermann, Jens, Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
    From the publisher: “The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant’s central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785. Kant champions the insights of ‘common human… More

  • Kant and the Limits of Autonomy by Susan Shell

    - Shell, Susan Meld. Kant and the Limits of Autonomy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
    From the publisher: “Autonomy for Kant is not just a synonym for the capacity to choose, whether simple or deliberative. It is what the word literally implies: the imposition of a law on one’s own authority and out of one’s own rational resources.… More