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Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals of 1785 is
one of the most profound and important works in the history of
practical philosophy. In this introduction to the Groundwork, Sally
Sedgwick provides a guide to Kant's text that follows the course of
his discussion virtually paragraph by paragraph. Her aim is to
convey Kant's ideas and arguments as clearly and simply as
possible, without getting lost in scholarly controversies. Her
introductory chapter offers a useful overview of Kant's general
approach to practical philosophy, and she also explores and
clarifies some of the main assumptions which Kant relies on in his
Groundwork but defends in his Critique of Pure Reason. The book
will be a valuable guide for all who are interested in Kant's
practical philosophy.
The period from Kant to Hegel is one of the most intense and rigorous in modern philosophy. The central problem at the heart of it was the development of a new standard of theoretical reflection and of the principle of rationality itself. The essays in this volume consider both the development of Kant's system of transcendental idealism in the three Critiques, the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, and the Opus Postumum, as well as the reception and transformation of that idealism in the work of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.
Sally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel's critique of
Kant's theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a
compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of
cognition that Kant defended in his 'Critical' period. The book
examines key features of what Kant identifies as the 'discursive'
character of our mode of cognition, and considers Hegel's reasons
for arguing that these features condemn Kant's theoretical
philosophy to scepticism as well as dualism. Sedgwick goes on to
present in a sympathetic light Hegel's claim to derive from certain
Kantian doctrines clues to a superior form of idealism, a form of
idealism that better captures the nature of our cognitive powers
and their relation to objects.
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals of 1785 is
one of the most profound and important works in the history of
practical philosophy. In this introduction to the Groundwork, Sally
Sedgwick provides a guide to Kant's text that follows the course of
his discussion virtually paragraph by paragraph. Her aim is to
convey Kant's ideas and arguments as clearly and simply as
possible, without getting lost in scholarly controversies. Her
introductory chapter offers a useful overview of Kant's general
approach to practical philosophy, and she also explores and
clarifies some of the main assumptions which Kant relies on in his
Groundwork but defends in his Critique of Pure Reason. The book
will be a valuable guide for all who are interested in Kant's
practical philosophy.
Sally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel's critique of
Kant's theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a
compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of
cognition that Kant defended in his 'Critical' period. The book
examines key features of what Kant identifies as the 'discursive'
character of our mode of cognition, and considers Hegel's reasons
for arguing that these features condemn Kant's theoretical
philosophy to scepticism as well as dualism. Sedgwick goes on to
present in a sympathetic light Hegel's claim to derive from certain
Kantian doctrines clues to a superior form of idealism, a form of
idealism that better captures the nature of our cognitive powers
and their relation to objects.
The period from Kant to Hegel is one of the most intense and
rigorous in modern philosophy. The central problem at the heart of
it was the development of a new standard of theoretical reflection
and of the principle of rationality itself. The essays in this
volume, published in 2000, consider both the development of Kant's
system of transcendental idealism in the three Critiques, the
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, and the Opus Postumum,
as well as the reception and transformation of that idealism in the
work of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel.
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