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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.
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DETAILS
304 pages Size: 9 x 6 in 13 digit ISBN: 9781580460538
Binding: Hardback First published: 16/Apr/2001 Last reprinted: 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 05/01/2009
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Contents
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Is Thinking Spontaneous? Stanley Rosen
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Lewis White Beck's Account of Kant's Strategy Graham Bird
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Paths Traced through Reality: Kant on Commonsense Truths Predrag Cicovacki
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The Anti-Reductionist Kant Gordon Brittan
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Analyticity and the Semantics of Predicates Carsten Held
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Kant, the 'I Think', and Self-Awareness Robert Howell
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The Problem of Time in Kant Gerold Prauss
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Kant and Short Arguments to Humility Karl Ameriks
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Which Freedom? Ralf Meerbote
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Consequentialism and Its Consequences Robert Holmes
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Another Look at Maxims Rudiger Bubner
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Kant versus Eudaimonism Allen Wood
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Kant and the History of the Will Yirmiyahu Yovel
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Moral Mysticism in Kant's Religion of Practical Reason Joseph Lawrence
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Kant as Educator: Reason and Religion in Part One of the Conflict of the Faculties Susan Meld Shell
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The Quid Facti and Quid Juris in Kant's Critique of Taste Henry Allison
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Kant in the 1760s: Contextualizing the "Popular" Turn John H. Zammito
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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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