Immanuel Kant : Key Concepts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Key Concepts Series .
- Key Concepts Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Philosophy -- 1. Critique: knowledge, metaphysics -- 2. Sensibility: space and time, transcendental idealism -- 3. Understanding: judgements, categories, schemata, principles -- 4. Reason: syllogisms, ideas, antinomies -- Part II: Practical Philosophy -- 5. Freedom: will, autonomy -- 6. Practical reason: categorical imperative, maxims, laws -- 7. Moral obligation: rights, duties, virtues -- 8. Political obligation: property, trade, peace -- Part III: Aesthetics, Teleology, Religion -- 9. Beauty: subjective purposiveness -- 10. Organism: objective purposiveness -- 11. Nature and history: ultimate and final purpose -- 12. Rational faith: God, immortality, grace -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index.
Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His revolutionary ideas are systematically interconnected and he presents them using a forbidding technical vocabulary. This book provides an introduction to Kant by explaining each of the key concepts of his philosophy.