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The Aporia of Inner Sense: The Self-Knowledge of Reason and the Critique of Metaphysics in Kant (Critical Studies in German Idealism, Book 3)
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The Aporia of Inner Sense: The Self-Knowledge of Reason and the Critique of Metaphysics in Kant (Critical Studies in German Idealism, Book 3)

This work - the first full-length account of its theme in English - identifies Kants doctrine of inner sense as a central, and problematic, element within the architectonic of pure reason of the first Critique. Its exegesis exposes two, variant construals of the character and capacities of inner sense: the first, positive construal functions in Kants account of the nature of knowledge in the Transcendental Analytic, while the second, negative construal functions in Kants account of the limits of knowledge in the Transcendental Dialectic.
 
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Kants Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and Immortality
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Kants Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and ImmortalityKants Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and Immortality

Morality has traditionally been understood to be tied to certain metaphysical beliefs: notably, in the freedom of human persons (to choose right or wrong courses of action), in a god (or gods) who serve(s) as judge(s) of moral character, and in an afterlife as the locus of a ""final judgment"" on individual behavior. Some scholars read the history of moral philosophy as a gradual disentangling of our moral commitments from such beliefs.
 
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Tags: moral, beliefs, behavior, scholars, history, Kants, Immortality, Freedom
Kants Dialectic
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Kants DialecticKants Dialectic

Jonathan Bennett here examines the second half of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Dialectic, where Kant is concerned with problems about substance, the nature of the self, the cosmos, freedom and the existence of God. In this study of the Dialectic in English, the author aims to make accessible and intelligible to students this complex and extremely important part of Kant’s great work. There are also extended comparative discussions of related work by some of the most influential of Kant’s predecessors, in particular Descartes and Leibniz.
 
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Kant on God (Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology)
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Kant on God (Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology)Kant on God (Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology)

Peter Byrne presents a detailed study of the role of the concept of God in Kant's "Critical Philosophy". After a preliminary survey of the major interpretative disputes over the understanding of Kant on God, Byrne explores his critique of philosophical proofs of God's existence. Examining Kant's account of religious language, Byrne highlights both the realist and anti-realist elements contained within it. 
 
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Kant's Theory of Action
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Kant's Theory of ActionThe theory of action underlying Immanuel Kant's ethical theory is the subject of this book. What "maxims" are, and how we act on maxims, are explained here in light of both the historical context of Kant's thought, and his classroom lectures on psychology and ethics. Arguing against the current of much recent scholarship, Richard McCarty makes a strong case for interpreting Kant as having embraced psychological determinism, a version of the "belief-desire model" of human motivation, and a literal, "two-worlds" metaphysics.

 
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