The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, vol. 4, Practical Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xxxiii, 668. ISBN 0-521-37103-1 (hbk), £50.

The article analyzes the main characteristic features of the philosophy of religion of the founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism Hermann Cohen. Special attention is paid to Cohen’s criticism and reinterpretation of Kant’s “practical philosophy” from the point of view of the philosophy of religion: Cohen supplements and expands Kant’s provisions on moral law and moral duty, interpreting them as divine commandments. The authors emphasize the fundamental importance for Cohen of the “internal similarity” between Kant’s ethical teaching and the main provisions of Judaism. The sources of Kant’s own ideas about the Jewish tradition are shown, which include the work of Moses Mendelssohn “Jerusalem” and the “Theologicalpolitical treatise” by Baruch Spinoza. Cohen’s criticism of these works is analyzed an much attention is paid to the consideration of Cohen’s attitude to Spinoza’s philosophical legacy in general. The interpretation of the postulates of Judaism by Cohen (and their “inner kinship” with Kant’s moral philosophy) in ethical, logical, and political contexts is presented. Cohen’s understanding of such religious-philosophical and doctrinal phenomena as law, grace, Revelation, teaching, the Torah, messianism, freedom, the Old Testament and the New Testament, etc. is provided and analyzed. The main points of Cohen’s religious teaching as “ethical monotheism” are considered; in particular, the authors analyze his understanding of the idea of God as “the only one”, which is highlighted in the works of Paul Natorp. It is concluded that Cohen’s philosophy of religion, which is based on the postulates of Judaism as well as Kant’s “practical philosophy”, could be characterized by the terms “ethical monotheism”, “universalism” and “humanism”.

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Hjernen i Immanuel Kants senværk og Cathrine Malabous samtidskritik

Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie ◽

10.7146/sl.v0i66.104198 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 203-224

Author(s):

Steen Nepper Larsen

Keyword(s):

Immanuel Kant ◽

Practical Philosophy ◽

Anthropological Perspective ◽

Late Work ◽

The Brain

In his late work Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht (1798), Immanuel Kant depicts the internal processes in the brain as something that cannot have the interest of a pragmatic anthropology. His profound teleology of nature does not bind the idea of man’s selfperfection to the nature of the brain. In her work Que faire de notre cerveau? (What Should We Do With Our Brain?) from 2004, Catherine Malabou argues that this question of what we should do with our brain needs a self-conscious and political answer. We can and should try to regain control of the processes that mold the cerebral constitution of man. This article discusses the arguments behind the two opposite ʻpositions’ in practical philosophy in a broader philosophical anthropological perspective. What are the limits of Kant’s approach to the brain and does Malabou’s normative project find its take-off in voluntarism?

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Hacia una crítica de la razón histórica: la historia filosofante de Kant

LOGOS Revista de Filosofía ◽

10.26457/lrf.v0i134.2531 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 97-116

Author(s):

Daniel Caballero López

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Modern Philosophy ◽

Immanuel Kant ◽

Columbia University ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Princeton University ◽

Moral Faith ◽

University Of Chicago Press ◽

Theoretical Philosophy

Resumen En el presente artículo (i) se desarrolla una crítica al discurso histórico-filosófico de Kant para explicitar sus condiciones de posibilidad, desde lo cual se erige un modelo hermenéutico que (ii) hace inteligible la historia filosofante de la filosofía presente en Los progresos de la metafísica desde los tiempos de Leibniz y Wolff, mostrando cómo las condiciones operan allí y constituyen una determinada narrativa que da cuenta de las perspectivas desde las cuales se ofrece la historia; después (iii) se realiza la interpretación de la historia desde el modelo con el fin de señalar su sostenibilidad; al final, (iv) se vincula la historia filosófica con la propia filosofía trascendental de Kant, legitimando con ello al modelo y señalando cómo el horizonte del proyecto crítico es esa misma historia. Palabras clave Metafísica: Historia; Razón; Teleología; Discurso. Referencias Allison, Henry E., Kant’s Transcendental Idealism. 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24. Kant

10.1093/hepl/9780198708926.003.0024 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Katrin A. Flikschuh

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Property Rights ◽

Immanuel Kant ◽

Political Liberalism ◽

Political Obligation ◽

Practical Philosophy ◽

The Political ◽

Political Ideas ◽

Short Biography ◽

The Relationship

This chapter examines the political ideas of Immanuel Kant. Kant is widely regarded as a precursor to current political liberalism. There are many aspects of Kant's political philosophy, including his property argument, that remain poorly understood and unjustly neglected. Many other aspects, including his cosmopolitanism, reveal Kant as perhaps one of the most systematic and consistent political thinkers. Underlying all these aspects of his political philosophy is an abiding commitment to his epistemological method of transcendental idealism. After providing a short biography of Kant, this chapter considers his epistemology as well as the relationship between virtue and justice in his practical philosophy. It also explores a number of themes in Kant's political thinking, including the idea of external freedom, the nature of political obligation, the vindication of property rights, the denial of a right to revolution, and the cosmopolitan scope of Kantian justice.

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