Kant by Robert Wicks

Author:Robert Wicks [Wicks, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781444191288
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2014-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

Key idea: The failure of metaphysics shifts our attention to morality

Insofar as Kant repeatedly maintains that metaphysical knowledge is impossible – as in the Paralogisms – he appears to be a sceptic. His positive philosophical project, however, is to emphasize our moral awareness in light of the inadequacy of constructing airtight logical proofs. This effort to highlight morality occurs throughout the second half of the Critique of Pure Reason.

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Henry Allison, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense, Part Four, Sections 12 and 13 (Yale University Press, 1983)

Karl Ameriks, Kant’s Theory of Mind: An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason (Clarendon Press, 1982)

Andrew Brook, Kant and the Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Michelle Grier, Kant’s Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion, Chapter 5 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

C. Thomas Powell, Kant’s Theory of Self-Consciousness (Clarendon Press, 1990)

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