This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis of the most rigorous principle of duty. Kant's thought is placed in a rich historical context including such figures as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kames, as well as Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Schiller, and Hegel. Other topics treated are the sublime, natural versus artistic beauty, genius and art history, and duty and inclination. These essays extend and enrich the account of Kant's aesthetics in the author's earlier book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979).
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'The overall theme of this superb collection (ten of Guyer's papers, half of them previously unpublished) concerns the complex of relations among Kant's views of art and aesthetic experience, the interests of morality and society in the latter, and more generally the connection between morality and human sensibility ... a major contribution to a study of both the ethics and the aesthetics.' Richard E. Aquila, The University of Tennessee
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This collection of essays by one of the pre-eminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself.
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In the final section of the introduction to the Critique of Judgment, Kant speaks of the "great gulf" (grosse Kluft) that separates the "realm of the concept of nature" from that of "the concept of freedom." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual appreciator, specific moral conceptions, subjective finality, uniformity amidst variety, pure aesthetic judgment, dynamical sublime, naturally sublime, internal purposiveness, aesthetic estimation, morally good disposition, formal purposiveness, juridical duties, subjective purposiveness, teleological judgment, aesthetic predicates, determinate concept, objective perfection, human artistry, mathematical sublime, objective finality, virtuous motivation, perfect duties, dependent beauty, disinterested delight, unconditional end Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Critique of Judgment, General Remark, Critique of Practical Reason, Doctrine of Virtue, Analytic of the Sublime, Limits of Reason Alone, Critique of Teleological Judgment, Edmund Burke, Francis Hutcheson, Friedrich Schiller, First Introduction, Karl Philipp Moritz, Lord Shaftesbury, Christian Wolff, David Hume, Marcus Herz New!
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individual appreciator, specific moral conceptions, subjective finality, uniformity amidst variety, pure aesthetic judgment, dynamical sublime, naturally sublime, internal purposiveness, aesthetic estimation, morally good disposition, formal purposiveness, juridical duties, subjective purposiveness, teleological judgment, aesthetic predicates, determinate concept, objective perfection, human artistry, mathematical sublime, objective finality, virtuous motivation, perfect duties, dependent beauty, disinterested delight, unconditional end Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Critique of Judgment, General Remark, Critique of Practical Reason, Doctrine of Virtue, Analytic of the Sublime, Limits of Reason Alone, Critique of Teleological Judgment, Edmund Burke, Francis Hutcheson, Friedrich Schiller, First Introduction, Karl Philipp Moritz, Lord Shaftesbury, Christian Wolff, David Hume, Marcus Herz New!
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- The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 53 pages
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 29 pages
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on 29 pages
- Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 25 pages
- Lectures on Ethics (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 12 pages
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- Kant's Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings by Robert B. Louden on 5 pages
- Kantian Ethics Almost Without Apology by Marcia W. Baron on 4 pages
- The Bounds of Choice: Unchosen Virtues, Unchosen Commitments (Studies in Ethics) by Talbot Brewer on 4 pages
- The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy by Anthony Cunningham in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Kant (Routledge Philosophers) by Paul Guyer on page 333, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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