Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Gualtiero Lorini, Robert B. Louden

   Pages 1-8

3. Sources and Influences in Kant’s Definition of the Knowledge Concerning the Human Being

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Elucidations of the Sources of Kant’s Anthropology

      • Holly L. Wilson

      Pages 11-28

   3. Anthropology—A Legacy from Wolff to Kant?

      • Jean-François Goubet

      Pages 29-42

   4. Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant

      • Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero

      Pages 43-61

   5. The Rules for Knowing the Human Being: Baumgarten’s Presence in Kant’s Anthropology

      • Gualtiero Lorini

      Pages 63-80

   6. Kant on the Vocation and Formation of the Human Being

      • Ansgar Lyssy

      Pages 81-98

4. The Peculiarities of Anthropological Knowledge in Kant: Metaphysics, Morals, Psychology, Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. The Moral Dimensions of Kant’s Anthropology

      • Robert B. Louden

      Pages 101-116

   3. “Ein Spiel der Sinnlichkeit, durch den Verstand geordnet:” Kant’s Concept of Poetry and the Anthropological Revolution of Human Imagination

      • Fernando M. F. Silva

      Pages 117-132

   4. Somatology: Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

      • Francesco Valerio Tommasi

      Pages 133-146

   5. Controlling Mental Disorder: Kant’s Account of Mental Illness in the Anthropology Writings

      • Nuria Sánchez Madrid

      Pages 147-162

5. Back Matter

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This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kant’s thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kant’s philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kant’s thought.

• Immanuel Kant
• transcendental philosophy
• anthropology
• psychology
• morality

• Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Gualtiero Lorini

• University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA

  Robert B. Louden

Gualtiero Lorini is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Kant-Gesellschaft and the North American Kant Society, and the author of the volume Fonti e lessico dell’ontologia kantiana. I corsi di metafisica (1762-1795) (Pisa: 2017). His research interests include German idealism, philosophical anthropology in 18th-Century Germany, and the interactions between Neo-Kantianism and Phenomenology.

Robert B. Louden is Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA. A former president of the North American Kant Society (NAKS), Louden is also co-editor and translator of two volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. He co-edited his most recent book, Why Be Moral? (2015) with Beatrix Himmelmann and has published numerous books on Kant.