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xv, 268 pages ; 23 cm For more than two centuries, Kant scholars have operated on the unquestioned premise that Kant's three Critiques offered a systematic exposition of his philosophy. But this unitary view, argues T. K. Seung, is gravely mistaken. In Kant's Platonic Revolution in Moral and Political Philosophy, Seung shows how each of the three works represents a major reformulation of the initial commitment to Platonism which Kant had made in his Inaugural Dissertation of 1770 For Kant, Platonic Forms are the basic ideas for constructing moral, aesthetic, and political norms and standards. This is the essence of Kant's Platonic constructivism, which Seung explicates with comparisons to other programs of construction, such as Hobbesian conventionalism and Hegelian historicism. Finally, he clarifies the link between constructivism and deconstruction Includes bibliographical references and index 1. Modern Science and the Problem of Value -- 2. Kant's Platonic Awakening in the Inaugural Dissertation -- 3. Normative Platonism in the First Critique and Kant's Philosophy of History -- 4. The Groundwork and the Second Critique: Kant's Formalism -- 5. The Metaphysics of Morals: Kant's Pl

Author

Seung, Professor T.K.

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801848506

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities