The organization of the mind : lessons from Kant and Freud /
As a prominent figure of the 18th century Enlightenment, Kant advocated faith in reason & in the possibility of human progress through the development of human beings' rational capacities. In contrast, as the founder of 20th century psychoanalysis, Freud revealed that rationality itself is...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Rutgers lectures in philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | As a prominent figure of the 18th century Enlightenment, Kant advocated faith in reason & in the possibility of human progress through the development of human beings' rational capacities. In contrast, as the founder of 20th century psychoanalysis, Freud revealed that rationality itself is rooted in the non-rational soil of mental life. For Freud, rational thinking is pervaded with irrational motivations for thinking & acting. For Kant, the capacity to affirm & endorse on rational grounds one's beliefs & actions is the highest capacity in human beings, one that raises them above all other living beings. Those contrasts between the two thinkers have led to countless philosophical manifestos pitting Freud & Kant against each other. In this book, B?eatrice Longuenesse paints a more nuanced picture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197781296 0197781292 |