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This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and
at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in
Germany during the nineteenth century. When debates over God,
religion, and morality were at a boiling point in Europe, Sanskrit
translations of classical Indian thought became available for the
first time. Almost overnight India became the centre of a major
controversy concerning the origins of western religious and
intellectual culture. Working forward from this controversy, this
book examines how early translations of works such as the
Bhagavad-gītā and the Yoga Sūtras were caught in the crossfire
of another debate concerning the rise of pantheism, as a doctrine
that identifies God and nature. It shows how these theological
concerns shaped the image of Indian thought in the work of
Schlegel, Günderrode, Humboldt, Hegel, Schelling, and others,
lasting into the nineteenth century and beyond. Furthermore, this
book explores how worries about the perceived nihilism of Yoga were
addressed by key voices in the early twentieth century Indian
Renaissance – notably Dasgupta, Radhakrishnan, and Bhattacharyya
– who defended sophisticated counter-readings of their
intellectual heritage during the colonial era. Written for
non-specialists, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany will be of
interest to students and scholars working on 19th-century
philosophy, Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, Hindu
studies, intellectual history, and religious history.
The System of Ethics was published at the height of
Fichte's academic career and marks the culmination of his
philosophical development in Jena. Much more than a treatise on
ethics narrowly construed, the System of
Ethics presents a unified synthesis of Fichte's core
philosophical ideas, including the principle I-hood, self-activity
and self-consciousness, and also contains his most detailed
treatment of action and agency. This volume brings together an
international group of leading scholars on Fichte, and is the first
of its kind in English to offer critical and interpretive
perspectives on this work, covering topics such as normativity,
belief, justification, desire, duty, and the ethical life. It will
be an essential guide for scholars wanting to deepen their
understanding of Fichte's ethical thought, as well as for those
interested in the history of ethics more broadly.
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Kant on Freedom
Owen Ware
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R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Kant's early critics maintained that his theory of freedom faces a
dilemma: either it reduces the will's activity to strict necessity
by making it subject to the causality of the moral law, or it
reduces the will's activity to blind chance by liberating it from
rules of any kind. This Element offers a new interpretation of
Kant's theory against the backdrop of this controversy. It argues
that Kant was a consistent proponent of the claim that the moral
law is the causal law of a free will, and that the supposed ability
of free will to choose indifferently between options is an empty
concept. Freedom, for Kant, is a power to initiate action from
oneself, and the only way to exercise this power is through the law
of one's own will, the moral law. Immoral action is not thereby
rendered impossible, but it also does not express a genuine
ability.
The System of Ethics was published at the height of Fichte's
academic career and marks the culmination of his philosophical
development in Jena. Much more than a treatise on ethics narrowly
construed, the System of Ethics presents a unified synthesis of
Fichte's core philosophical ideas, including the principle I-hood,
self-activity and self-consciousness, and also contains his most
detailed treatment of action and agency. This volume brings
together an international group of leading scholars on Fichte, and
is the first of its kind in English to offer critical and
interpretive perspectives on this work, covering topics such as
normativity, belief, justification, desire, duty, and the ethical
life. It will be an essential guide for scholars wanting to deepen
their understanding of Fichte's ethical thought, as well as for
those interested in the history of ethics more broadly.
Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the
normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in
contemporary moral philosophy. Many prominent ethicists invoke
Kant, directly or indirectly, in their efforts to derive the
authority of moral requirements from a more basic conception of
action, agency, or rationality. But many commentators have detected
a deep rift between the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
and the Critique of Practical Reason, leaving Kant's project of
justification exposed to conflicting assessments and
interpretations. In this ground-breaking study of Kant, Owen Ware
defends the controversial view that Kant's mature writings on
ethics share a unified commitment to the moral law's primacy. Using
both close analysis and historical contextualization, Owen Ware
overturns a paradigmatic way of reading Kant's arguments for
morality and freedom, situating them within Kant's critical
methodology at large. The result is a novel understanding of Kant
that challenges much of what goes under the banner of Kantian
arguments for moral normativity today.
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