Freedom and the End of Reason : On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy.
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| Author / Creator: | Velkley, Richard L. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219555 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Problem of the End of Reason in Kant's Philosophy; The Primacy of the Practical End of Reason; Rousseau's Insight; The Highest Good and the End of Reason; A Prospectus of the Argument; 1. The Revolution in the End of Reason: Some Principal Themes; The Revision of Modern Foundations; The Critique of Instrumental Reason; The Crisis in the Relation of Metaphysics to Common Reason; Rousseau's Protest against Modern Enlightenment; Kantian Philosophy as Transcendental Practice; 2. The Teleological Problem in Modern Individualism.
- Individualism and Moral SenseRousseau's Challenge to Moral Sense; The Teleological Problem in Rousseau; 3. Kant's Discovery of a Solution, 1764- 65; History, Nature, and Perfection; Will, Reason, and Spontaneity; The Analysis of Passion: Honor and Benevolence; Justice and Equality; Common Reason and the End of Science; 4. The origins of Modern Moral idealism, 1765-80; The Unity of Freedom and Nature as Ideal Goal; The Failures of Ancient Moral Idealism; Morality as System; Socratic Metaphysics as Science of the End and the Limit of Reason; The Dialectic of the Pure Concepts of the Whole.
- 5. Culture and the Practical Interpretation of The End of Reason, 1781-1800The Ultimate End of Theoretical Inquiry; Philosophy's "Idea" and Its History; Culture's Contradictions and Their Ideal Resolution; Epilogue; Notes; Index.