Contents
2 Historical Notes and Interpretive Questions about Kant's Lectures on Anthropology 3 Kant and the Problem of Human Nature Alien W Wood 4 The Second Part of Morals Robert B. Louden 5 The Guiding Idea of Kant's Anthropology and the Vocation of the Human Being 6 Kantian Character and the Problem of a Science of Humanity 7 Beauty, Freedom, and Morality Kant's Lectures on Anthropology and the Development of His Aesthetic Theory 8 Kant's Apology for Sensibility Howard Caygill 9 Kant's True Economy...
Brian Jacobs and Patrick Kain
No other issue in Kant's thought is as pervasive and persistent as that of human nature. Posed as the peculiarly Kantian question, what is the human being Was ist der Mensch 1, this may be the sole concern that appears consistently from Kant's earliest writings through the last. In Kant's lectures - on logic, metaphysics, ethics, and education - it is difficult to find a text completely free of anthropological observation. Reaching far beyond considerations of ethics and history, moreover, the...
Contributors
REINHARD BRANDT is Professor of Philosophy at PhilippsUniversit t, Marburg, and founding director of the Marburger Kant-Archiv. He is co-editor of Kants gesammelte Schriften, vols. 25 Vorlesungen ber Anthropologie 1997 and 26 Vorlesungen ber physische Geography forthcoming . He is also a general editor and contributor to the series Kant-Forschungen. His recent books include Kritischer Kommentar zu Kants Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht 1798 1999 , D'Artagnan und die Urteilstafel. ber ein...