Renaissance, The Enlightenment

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy – Philosophy of the 17th and 18th Centuries, grade: 9/10, Utrecht University, language: Dutch, abstract: Er bestaat geen …

This volume provides a highly needed, comprehensive analysis of Kant’s views on proofs for God’s existence and explains the radical turns of Kant’s accounts. In the ‘Theory of Heavens’ (1755), Kant i …

Sex, love, and friendship play an integral role in Immanuel Kant’s conception of human life. Against common prejudices, Kant provides substantial contributions to the philosophical discussion of thes …

Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy Is there a world that exists apart from …

This volume examines (1) the philosophical sources of the Kantian concepts ‘apperception’ and ‘self-consciousness’, (2) the historical development of the theories of apperception and deduction of cat …

In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of ‘values’ and ‘goods’ are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously cr …

The debate between moral realism and antirealism plays an important role in contemporary metaethics as well as in the interpretation of Kant’s moral philosophy. This volume aims to clarify whether, a …

This important collection of more than twenty original essays by prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant’s teaching in relation to his published works. With the Academy edition’s …

This essay argues that we can only develop a proper grasp of Kant’s practical philosophy if we appreciate the central role played in his thought by the notion of the interests of reason. While it is …

Since its publication in 1952, Leo Strauss’s Persecution and the Art of Writing has stirred considerable controversy, particularly among historians concerned with early modern philosophy. On the one …