Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

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This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kant’s thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kant’s philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kant’s thought. Contents......Page 5 Notes on Contributors......Page 7 Adopted Editions and Translations......Page 13 Introduction......Page 20 Bibliography......Page 26 Part I Sources and Influences in Kant’s Definition of the Knowledge Concerning the Human Being......Page 28 The History of the Dispute......Page 29 The Current Argument......Page 32 What Is Weltkenntnis?......Page 34 Klugheit (Prudence) in the Early Lecture......Page 37 Kant’s Anthropology Lecture as Klugheitslehre......Page 38 The Influence of Baumgarten......Page 41 Conclusion......Page 43 Bibliography......Page 44 From Rational Psychology to Pragmatic Anthropology......Page 47 Man as a Rational Animal in the Pneumatological Tradition......Page 49 The Beginnings of Pragmatic Anthropology and the Wolffian Background......Page 51 The Question of Egoism......Page 53 The Perfectibility of the Human Species......Page 54 Man’s Destiny to Make Use of His Reason......Page 56 Convergences and Divergences Between the Wolffian and Kantian Projects......Page 57 Bibliography......Page 59 Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant......Page 61 Inner Sense, Apperception, and Self-Consciousness......Page 63 Wolff and the Logic of Inner Sense......Page 69 Lambert and the Paradox of A Priori Experience......Page 71 Kant Against Inner Immediacy......Page 75 Bibliography......Page 77 Introduction......Page 80 Empirical and Rational Psychology Between Wolff and Baumgarten......Page 82 Anthropology and Psychology in Kant......Page 84 The Inner Sense......Page 87 Conclusion......Page 93 Bibliography......Page 95 Vocation of Humankind and the Philosophy of History......Page 98 The Concept of Vocation in Spalding......Page 102 The Beginning of Human History and the Preconditions for Humanity......Page 105 Vocation and Formation......Page 110 Bibliography......Page 114 Part II The Peculiarities of Anthropological Knowledge in Kant: Metaphysics, Morals, Psychology, Politics......Page 116 The Moral Dimensions of Kant’s Anthropology......Page 117 Doubts About Moral Anthropology......Page 120 Hindrances and Helps......Page 125 Additional Moral Dimensions......Page 127 Bibliography......Page 130 Poetry, a Game Between Sensibility and the Understanding......Page 133 Poetry, Genius and Wit......Page 137 Poetry: Faculty of Imagination, Fantasy and Memory......Page 141 Bibliography......Page 147 Somatology: Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries......Page 149 Kant and Somatology......Page 150 The Invention of the Term ‘Somatology’......Page 153 The Philosophical Science of the Body......Page 158 Bibliography......Page 161 Controlling Mental Disorder: Kant’s Account of Mental Illness in the Anthropology Writings......Page 163 An Inquiry Concerning Mental Deficiencies: A Key Contribution of Kant’s Approach to Human Nature......Page 164 Kant’s Map of Mental Disorders......Page 168 The Task of Controlling Mental Disorder and the Social Normativity of Reason......Page 173 Bibliography......Page 178 Index......Page 179