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

According to Immanuel Kant, humans are creators. The papers in this volume examine Kant’s legacy by addressing issues concerning creativity in all aspects of human experience.


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 centralimportance 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.


Predrag Cicovacki is Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross.

Spis treści

Is Thinking Spontaneous? – Stanley Rosen

Lewis White Beck’s Account of Kant’s Strategy – Graham Bird

Paths Traced through Reality: Kant on Commonsense Truths – Predrag Cicovacki

The Anti-Reductionist Kant – Gordon Brittan

Analyticity and the Semantics of Predicates – Carsten Held

Kant, the 'I Think’, and Self-Awareness – Robert Howell

The Problem of Time in Kant – Gerold Prauss

Kant and Short Arguments to Humility – Karl Ameriks

Which Freedom? – Ralf Meerbote

Consequentialism and Its Consequences – Robert Holmes

Another Look at Maxims – Rudiger Bubner

Kant versus Eudaimonism – Allen Wood

Kant and the History of the Will – Yirmiyahu Yovel

Moral Mysticism in Kant’s Religion of Practical Reason – Joseph Lawrence

Kant as Educator: Reason and Religion in Part One of the
Conflict of the Faculties – Susan Meld Shell

The
Quid Facti and
Quid Juris in Kant’s Critique of Taste – Henry Allison

Kant in the 1760s: Contextualizing the 'Popular’ Turn – John H. Zammito