Kant's system of nature and freedom : selected essays /

The governing theme of the volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Featuring two new papers and and introduction to orient the reader, this text will be useful to anyone working on the history of philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of s...

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Main Author: Guyer, Paul, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; PART I: THE SYSTEM OF NATURE; 1. Reason and Reflective Judgement: Kant on the Significance of Systematicity; 2. Kant's Conception of Empirical Law; 3. Kant on the Systematicity of Nature: Two Puzzles; 4. Kant's Ether Deduction and the Possibility of Experience; 5. Organisms and the Unity of Science; PART II: THE SYSTEM OF FREEDOM; 6. Kant on the Theory and Practice of Autonomy; 7. The Form and Matter of the Categorical Imperative; 8. Ends of Reason and Ends of Nature: The Place of Teleology in Kant's Ethics; 9. Kant's Deductions of the Principles of Right; 10. Kant's System of Duties; PART III: THE SYSTEM OF NATURE AND FREEDOM; 11. The Unity of Nature and Freedom: Kant's Conception of the System of Philosophy; 12. From Nature to Morality: Kant's New Argument in the 'Critique of Teleological Judgement'; 13. Purpose in Nature: What is Living and What is Dead in Kant's Teleology