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Index
Title
Contents
Introduction
How to use this book
Section One: Background
1 Life and writings
2 Kant’s way of thinking and arguing
1 Aristotelian logic and the elementary judgement, S is P
2 Abstraction as a way of thinking
3 Searching for underlying presuppositions
Section Two: What can we know?
3 Kant’s theory of knowledge
1 British empiricism: questioning the foundations of science
2 Kant’s theory of judgement: questioning the foundations of empiricism
3 Intuitions and concepts
4 Space and time: the structure of the faculty of sensibility
1 Newton and Leibniz on space and time
2 Kant: space and time as a priori intuitions
3 How are (some) synthetic a priori judgements possible?
4 Some objections to Kant’s theory of space and time
5 Aristotelian logic: the structure of the faculty of understanding
1 Aristotelian logic
2 The pure concepts of the understanding
6 The transcendental deduction
1 The transcendental deduction: first edition, ‘A’ version
2 The transcendental deduction: second edition, ‘B’ version
7 Substance, causality and objectivity
8 Metaphysical knowledge of the human soul 111
1 The paralogisms of pure reason – the nature of the self
9 Metaphysical knowledge of the world and of God’s existence
1 The antinomy of pure reason – the nature of the world
2 The ideal of pure reason – the knowledge of God
Section Three: What should we do?
10 Freedom and moral awareness
11 The morality of self-respect
1 Duty and the moral law
2 The categorical imperative
12 God, virtue and evil
1 The ‘realm of ends’ and the highest good
2 Virtue
3 The problem of evil
Section Four: What is the meaning of beauty?
13 Beauty in its formal purity
14 Human beauty and fine art
1 Beauty mixed with sensory and conceptual content
2 Artistic genius as the expression of aesthetic ideas
15 Sublimity, beauty, biology and morality
1 Aesthetic ideas and morality
2 Sublimity and morality
3 Beauty as the symbol of morality
4 Living things and our moral destiny
Section Five: For what may we hope?
16 Perpetual peace as the next great step
17 Conclusion: Kant’s influence
Further reading
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