Experience embodied early modern accounts of the human place in nature Waldow, Anik creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2020 2020 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages .) Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes's conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures. Waldow defends the claim that during the early modern period, the debate on experience not only focused on questions arising from the subjectivity of our thinking and feeling but also foregrounded the essentially embodied dimension of our lives as humans. By taking this approach, Waldow departs from the traditional epistemological route dominant in treatments of early-modern conceptions of experience. She makes the case that reflections on experience took center stage in a debate that was moral in nature, because it raised questions about the developmental potential of human beings and their capacity to instantiate the principles of self-determined agency in their lives. Part I The moral importance of experience -- Experience and Cartesian Agency -- Locke's Experiential Persons -- Part II On the continuity between sensibility and reason -- Moral reflection as perception: a Humean account -- Manipulated sensibilities: Rousseau on human nature -- Affect and imagination in processes of cognition: Herder -- Part III: How to study the human being? Philosophy and the empirical method -- Natural history and the formation of the human being: Kant and Herder -- Diversifying method: Kant's Janus-faced conception of the human being. Anik Waldow. Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index. Philosophy, Modern 17th century Philosophy, Modern 18th century Human body (Philosophy) Experience Philosophical anthropology Philosophie 17e siècle Philosophie 18e siècle Corps humain (Philosophie) Expérience Anthropologie philosophique philosophical anthropology Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHILOSOPHY Humanism Movements Modern History & Surveys Experience Human body (Philosophy) Philosophy, Modern 1600-1799 fast Australian B105.B64 W35 2020 128 (OCoLC)1110450882 9780190086121 0190086122 9780190086138 0190086130 0190086114 9780190086114 9780190086145 0190086149 yezs3r9 cloudLibrary http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/36532 AU@ 200313 20260319182120.8 in00005718409 eng