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 …

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 …

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 …

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 dis …

Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite of claims that they be transnational or even universal, …

Kant’s omnipresence in contemporary cosmopolitan discourses contrasts with the fact that little is known about the historical origins and the systematic status of his cosmopolitan theory. This study …

In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled “On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment, ” Kant addresses a crucial problem facing his theory of moral judgment: How can …