Kant’s Lectures / Kants Vorlesungen / / Bernd Dörflinger, Ubirajara Rancan de Azevedo Marques, Robert Louden, Claudio La Rocca.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• HerausgeberIn: Dörflinger, Bernd,; La Rocca, Claudio,; Louden, Robert,; Marques, Ubirajara Rancan de Azevedo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Although they were not written by Kant himself, the transcripts of his lectures constitute an important source for philosophical research today. Some of the contributions presented in this volume discuss the authenticity and significance of these transcripts, for example the status of Kant's lectures on logic and anthropology, while others shed light on the historical formation of specific writings, for instance the texts on the philosophy of religion. The contributions provide new insights into Kant's philosophy, that, if looking at Kant's published writings alone, we would not be able to gain. In a number of cases, a critical analysis of Kant's lectures gives us a better understanding of his published works. Thus his lectures on metaphysics shed new light on his Critique of Pure Reason, while the lecture on natural law is a valuable source for the understanding of his published legal writings.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Vorwort -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Versuch eines summarischen und pointierten Berichts über die Vorlesungen von Immanuel Kant -- Warum sind die Logikvorlesungen Kants interessant? -- Kant, Cicero, and «popularity» in the Lectures on Logic -- Note on the Matter and Content of Concepts -- Notes on the Kantian Concept of «Empirical Concept» -- Can Mere Intuitions Represent Objects? -- Economy and the Teleology of Evil in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (1775–1784) -- «Zum Erfinden wird Witz erfordert». On the Evolution of the Concept of Witz in Kant’s Anthropology Lectures -- Kant und Gerard über Einbildungskraft -- Knowing, Feeling, Desiring – Self-Possession. Reflections on the Connection between the Faculties in Kant’s Doctrine of the Categorical Imperative -- Prudence and the Rules for Guiding Life. The Development of Pragmatic Normativity in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology -- Moralität für Menschen: Ethische Theorie in Kants Vigilantius-Vorlesung -- »[O]hne Hofnung und Furcht«. Kants Naturrecht Feyerabend über den Grund der Verbindlichkeit zu einer Handlung -- Kant: die theoretische Welt der Metaphysik L1 (1776–1778) -- The Contribution of Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics to a Better Comprehension of the Architectonic -- Kant’s Account of Miracles in his Lectures on Metaphysics -- On Epigenesis: Historical and Philological Remarks -- Zum Entwicklungsstand der Rationaltheologie Kants in seiner Vorlesung im Wintersemester 1783/84