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Kant's Legacy
Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck
Edited Predrag Cicovacki

The late Lewis White Beck, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester for many years, was one of the world's leading Kant scholars. Beck considered the most significant element of Kant's rich, complex, and controversial legacy to be the ultimate philosoophical question: 'What is Man?' Kant's answer - that humans are creators - is ambiguous. On the one hand, it dignifies humans by elevating them above blind mechanical forces of nature. But it also imposes difficult burdens, including the tast of providing a unitary wolrdview and an immanently grounded system of values and norms. The contributors to this volume, under Beck's influence, concur that this theme is of central importance for the proper understanding and evaluation of Kant's legacy. The papers address issues concerning creativy in all aspects of human experience - from knowledge of the external world to self-knowledge, from moral to religious dilemmas, from judgments of taste to the art of living - with a constant awareness of the limitations as well as the possibilities of such creativity.

 

DETAILS

304 pages
Size: 9 x 6 in
13 digit ISBN: 9781580460538
Binding: Hardback
First published: 16/Apr/2001
Last printed: 16/Apr/2001
Price: 70.00 USD / 40.00 GBP
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
Subject: Philosophy

BIC class: AVH

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 18/11/2008

Contents
1   Is Thinking Spontaneous?
Stanley Rosen
2   Lewis White Beck's Account of Kant's Strategy
Graham Bird
3   Paths Traced through Reality: Kant on Commonsense Truths
Predrag Cicovacki
4   The Anti-Reductionist Kant
Gordon Brittan
5   Analyticity and the Semantics of Predicates
Carsten Held
6   Kant, the 'I Think', and Self-Awareness
Robert Howell
7   The Problem of Time in Kant
Gerold Prauss
8   Kant and Short Arguments to Humility
Karl Ameriks
9   Which Freedom?
Ralf Meerbote
10   Consequentialism and Its Consequences
Robert Holmes
11   Another Look at Maxims
Rudiger Bubner
12   Kant versus Eudaimonism
Allen Wood
13   Kant and the History of the Will
Yirmiyahu Yovel
14   Moral Mysticism in Kant's Religion of Practical Reason
Joseph Lawrence
15   Kant as Educator: Reason and Religion in Part One of the Conflict of the Faculties
Susan Meld Shell
16   The Quid Facti and Quid Juris in Kant's Critique of Taste
Henry Allison
17   Kant in the 1760s: Contextualizing the "Popular" Turn
John H. Zammito

Reviews
This impressive array of essays by leading Kant interpreters from the U.S. and abroad provides a most fitting tribute to the late Dean of American Kant scholars, Lewis White Beck. Kant's legacy is examined both under the heading of his Copernican Revolution and what Beck called his"Rousseauistic Revolution." Rudolf A. Makkreel, Dept. of Philosophy, Emory University



 

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