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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 summaries and up-to-date further
reading, Kant, second edition is an ideal introduction to this
demanding yet pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, and
essential reading for all students of philosophy.
'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In
1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic
responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered
by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the
Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity
until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with
psychology and even physiology as the basis for the subject.
Burke's theory of beauty encompasses the female form, nature, art,
and poetry, and he analyses our delight in sublime effects that
thrill and excite us. His revolution in method continues to have
repercussions in the aesthetic theories of today, and his
revolution in sensibility has paved the way for literary and
artistic movements from the Gothic novel through Romanticism,
twentieth-century painting, and beyond. In this new edition Paul
Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's Enquiry, focusing on its
place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its
innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors
from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin and Nietzsche. ABOUT THE SERIES:
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This book tells the story of idealism in modern philosophy, from
the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. Paul Guyer
and Rolf-Peter Horstmann define idealism as the reduction of all
reality to something mental in nature. Rather than distinguishing
between metaphysical and epistemological versions of idealism, they
distinguish between metaphysical and epistemological motivations
for idealism. They argue that while metaphysical arguments for
idealism have only rarely been accepted, for example by Bishop
Berkeley in the early eighteenth century and the British idealists
Bradley and McTaggart in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, epistemological arguments for idealism have been widely
accepted, even in the so-called analytic philosophy of the
twentieth century. Guyer and Horstmann discuss many philosophers
who have played a role in the development of idealism, from
Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume,
through Kant; the German idealists Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel;
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; the British and American idealists such
as Green and Royce in addition to Bradley and McTaggart; G.E. Moore
and Bertrand Russell, Neo-Kantians such as Ernst Cassirer; and
twentieth-century philosophers such as Wittgenstein, Collingwood,
Carnap, Sellars, and McDowell.
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 summaries and up-to-date further
reading, Kant, second edition is an ideal introduction to this
demanding yet pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, and
essential reading for all students of philosophy.
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