|
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
|
Buy Now
Kant, God and Metaphysics - The Secret Thorn (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,438
Discovery Miles 14 380
|
|
|
Kant, God and Metaphysics - The Secret Thorn (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
Kant is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher of modern
times. He undertook his famous critical turn to save human freedom
and morality from the challenge of determinism and materialism.
Intertwined with his metaphysical interests, however, he also had
theological commitments, which have received insufficient
attention. He believed that man is a fallen creature and in need of
'redemption'. He intended to provide a fortress protecting
religious faith from the failure of rationalist metaphysics, from
the atheistic strands of the Enlightenment, from the new
mathematical science of nature, and from the dilemmas of Christian
theology itself. Kant was an epistemologist, a philosopher of mind,
a metaphysician of experience, an ethicist and a philosopher of
religion. But all this was sustained by his religious faith. This
book aims to recover the focal point and inner contradictions of
his thought, the 'secret thorn' of his metaphysics (as Heidegger
once put it). It first locates Kant in the tradition of reflection
on the human weakness from Luther to Hume, and then engages in a
critical, but charitable, manner with Kant's entire pre-critical
work, including his posthumous fragments. Special attention is
given to The Only Possible Ground (1763), one of the most
difficult, interesting and underestimated of Kant's works. The
present book takes its cue from an older approach to Kant, but also
engages with recent Anglophone and continental scholarship, and
deploys modern analytical tools to make sense of Kant. What emerges
is an innovative and thought-provoking interpretation of Kant's
metaphysics, set against the background of forgotten religious
aspects of European philosophy.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
