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5Kant’s AnthropologyCon-Textos Kantianos 16 272-274. 2022._Review of Louden, Robert, _Kant’s Anthropology, _Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1-53, 9781108742283._.
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9Is Kant’s Worldly Concept of Philosophy really “Regional Philosophy”?In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 763-772. 2013.
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1Freedom and Klugheit in Kant’s Anthropology LecturesCon-Textos Kantianos 5 26-37. 2017.Kant holds in his works on morality that prudence is not free, because only action under the moral law is free. He also holds that acting on prudent reasons is incompatible with the moral law. If one explores his lectures on anthropology, however, one has reason to believe that not only is prudent action free in some sense as freedom of choice, but it is also not incompatible with moral action, since it does not necessitate using other human beings as mere means, even though it is about using ot…Read more
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6Kant’s Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (4): 923-923. 2001.Robert B. Louden has produced a book that is unique in its attempt to make a wide variety of Kant’s writings relevant to his ethical theory. The main point of the book is that in addition to Kant’s moral theory which is purely based on reason, the application of this theory requires empirical and hence impure knowledge of human beings. Kant calls the empirical part of his ethics “practical anthropology” and Louden believes that, though Kant did not complete this project as a separate book, the e…Read more
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Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology and its Relationship to Critical PhilosophyDissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. 1989.The question that has not yet been dealt with is why Kant was interested in pragmatic anthropology, and how it developed in relationship to his critical thinking. In the first chapter, I discuss the origin of the anthropology lectures. I argue that the lectures did not develop out of the empirical psychology parts of Kant's metaphysics lectures, as some German scholars assert, but rather they evolved out of Kant's interests in cosmology and out of his lectures on physical geography. ;For this re…Read more
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30Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology: Its Origin, Meaning, and Critical SignificanceState University of New York Press. 2006._The first comprehensive examination in English of Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View._
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73The Pragmatic Use of Kant’s Physical Geography LecturesIn Stuart Elden & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant's Geography, State University of New York Press. 2011.Kant gave lectures on physical geography and anthropology and called them cosmopolitan philosophy. His physical geography lectures were intended to teach students not just facts but also how to have practical judgment and were to prepare students for their place in the world. This article shows how the physical geography lectures were organized for that purpose
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64Kant's Evolutionary Theory of MarriageIn Jane Kneller (ed.), Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy, State Univ of New York Pr. 1998.Dr. Wilson explores how Kant 's views of marriage are really developmental and how he foresees marriage evolving to become more egalitarian under the impetus of unsociable-sociability
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15The Green Kant: Kant's Treatment of AnimalsIn Paul Pojman Louis Pojman (ed.), in Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, Cengage Learning. 2008.Kant's theory of animals is based on his belief that animals have presentations and consciousness and in this are like human beings. When we abuse animals then we are more likely to abuse human beings. But animals are organic beings that have internal purposiveness and hence are ends for which other things are means. In this limited sense animals have intrinsic value.
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39Kant’s Experiential Enlightenment and Court Philosophy in the 18th CenturyHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (April 2001): 179-205. 2001.Christian Thomasius and his school, including Andreas Rüdiger and Christian Crusius influenced Kant in the development of his Pragmatic Anthropology. They all shared a common concern that philosophy ought to be useful to students who have a role to play in the world.
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70Rethinking Kant from the Perspective of EcofeminismIn Robin May Schott (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Kant, . 1997.Contrary to what Jeanne Moyer asserts, Kant does not have a normative dualism going in his works on teleological judgment and these can be used to develop a more woman friendly view of human nature.
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29Kant's Theory of Freedom (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (1): 111-112. 1991.This is a very important book for Kantian practical philosophy, because it defends the essential consistency and coherence of Kant's transcendental idealism and his moral philosophy. At the same time, Allison's careful textual work along with his account of Kant's transcendental distinction between the intelligible and empirical character of human agency helps to clarify passages which have plagued some of the best interpreters of Kant's practical philosophy, such as Lewis White Beck and Allen W…Read more
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62Divine Sovereignty and The Global Climate Change DebateEssays in Philosophy 12 (1): 8-15. 2011.Behind the global climate change debate are views of divine sovereignty. Those who believe that God is in charge of everything believe there is no change in the climate, but those who believe that God's sovereignty entails that we are responsible for working with the divine are willing to admit there is global climate change.
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15Kant's Theory of Evil: An Essay on the Dangers of Self-love and the Aprioricity of History (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (3): 462-463. 2012.
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285Kant’s Anthropology as KlugheitslehreCon-Textos Kantianos 3 122-138. 2016.In this essay I show that Kant intended his anthropology lectures and book, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, to be a Klugheitslehre (theory of prudence). The essay draws on many quotes from these sources to show that Kant wanted to develop a theory of how to use other people for one’s own ends. Although so much of the lectures and book are in conversation with Baumgarten’s empirical psychology, there are enough references to Klugheit (prudence) and klug (clever) action to support t…Read more
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22Kant's Views of Human AnimalityIn The Proceedings of the IX International Kant Kongress in Berlin Germany, . pp. 450-457. 2000.Kant's views of human animality are consistent with his belief in human freedom.
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19Is Kant’s Worldly Concept of Philosophy really “Regional Philosophy”?In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 763-772. 2013.
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220Kant's Treatment of AnimalsIn Paul Pojman (ed.), Food Ethics, Wadsworth. 2011.Kant's theory of animals is based on his belief that animals have presentations and consciousness and in this are like human beings. When we abuse animals then we are more likely to abuse human beings. But animals are organic beings that have internal purposiveness and hence are ends for which other things are means. In this limited sense animals have intrinsic value.
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31Kant's Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical GuideBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (3): 589-592. 2015.
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68Kant and EcofeminismIn Karen Warren (ed.), Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature, Indiana Univ Pr. 1997.
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39Louden, Robert B. Kant’s Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (4): 923-924. 2001.
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