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Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings

By Paul Guyer , Patrick Frierson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0521711134, 9780521711135, 0521884128, 9780521884129
Google Books ID
ntq2xwmL-40C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1416528 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
399\399
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes little-known essays as well as personal notes and fragments that reveal the emergence of Kant's complex philosophical ideas. Those familiar with Kant's later works will discover a Kant interested in the 'beauty' as well as the 'dignity' of humanity, in human diversity as well as the universality of morals, and in practical concerns rather than abstract philosophizing. Readers will be able to see Kant's development from the Observations through the Remarks towards the moral philosophy that eventually made him famous.

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