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In this updated edition of his outstanding introduction to Kant, Paul Guyer uses Kant’s central conception of autonomy as the key to his thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant’s life and times, Guyer introduces Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, carefully explaining his arguments about the nature of space, time and experience in his most influential but difficult work, __The Critique of Pure Reason__. He offers an explanation and critique of Kant’s famous theory of transcendental idealism and shows how much of Kant’s philosophy is independent of this controversial doctrine. He then examines Kant’s moral philosophy, his celebrated ‘categorical imperative’ and his theories of duty, freedom of will and political rights. This section of the work has been substantially revised to clarify the relation between Kant’s conceptions of "internal" and "external" freedom. In his treatments of Kant’s aesthetics and teleology, Guyer focuses on their relation to human freedom and happiness. Finally, he considers Kant’s view that the development of human autonomy is the only goal that we can conceive for both natural and human history. Including a chronology, glossary, chapter summari
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- Author
- Guyer, Paul;Kant, Immanuel
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis;Routledge
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415843447
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Anthropology
Other editions & translations
- Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) (2011)
- Kant (The Routledge Philosophers) (2006)
- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy (2011)