Kant And The Culture Of Enlightenment
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Kant And The Culture Of Enlightenment
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Author : Katerina Deligiorgi
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Kant And The Culture Of Enlightenment written by Katerina Deligiorgi and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Political Science categories.
Katerina Deligiorgi interprets Kant's conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason. Analyzing a broad range of Kant's works, including his Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Judgment, his lectures on anthropology and logic, as well as his shorter essays, she identifies the theoretical and practical commitments that show the achievement of rational autonomy as an ongoing project for the realization of a culture of enlightenment. Deligiorgi also considers Kant's ideas in relation to the work of Diderot, Rousseau, Mendelssohn, Reinhold, Hamann, Schiller, and Herder. The perspective opened by this historical dialogue challenges twentieth-century revisionist interpretations of the Enlightenment to show that the "culture of enlightenment" is not simply a fragment of our intellectual history but rather a live project.
An Answer To The Question What Is Enlightenment
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Author : Immanuel Kant
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-09-26
An Answer To The Question What Is Enlightenment written by Immanuel Kant and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Philosophy categories.
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened, we must all have the freedom and courage to use our own intellect. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
What Is Enlightenment
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Author : Samuel Fleischacker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-02-11
What Is Enlightenment written by Samuel Fleischacker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Philosophy categories.
"Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosophy. The problems it addressed, such as the proper extent of individual freedom and the challenging of tradition, resonate as much today as when they were first debated. Of all philosophers, it is arguably Kant who took such questions most seriously, addressing them above all in his celebrated short essay, An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? In this engaging and lucid book, Samuel Fleischacker first explains and assesses Kant’s philosophy of Enlightenment. He then considers critics of Kant’s views - from Burke and Hegel to Horkheimer and Adorno - and figures he regards as having extended Kant’s notion of enlightenment, such as Feuerbach, Marx, Habermas, Foucault, and Rawls. Throughout, he demonstrates how Kant holds two distinct theories of enlightenment. On the one hand, Kant proposes a ‘minimal’ view, where to be enlightened is simply to engage in critical public discussion, allowing diversity of opinion to flourish. On the other, he argues that Kant elsewhere calls for a ‘maximal’ view of enlightenment, where, for example, an enlightened person cannot believe in a traditional religion. With great skill Fleischacker shows how these two views are taken in a multitude of directions by both critics and advocates of Kant’s philosophy. Arguing that Kant’s minimal enlightenment is a precondition for a healthy proliferation of cultures, religious faiths and political movements, What is Enlightenment? is a fascinating introduction to a key aspect of Kant’s thought and a compelling analysis of philosophical thinking about the Enlightenment. Including helpful chapter summaries and guides to further reading, it is ideal for anyone studying Kant or the philosophy of the Enlightenment, as well as those in related disciplines such as politics, history and religious studies.
The Relationship Between Race And Culture In Enlightenment Thought
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Author : Nejla Demirkaya
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-07-02
The Relationship Between Race And Culture In Enlightenment Thought written by Nejla Demirkaya and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-02 with History categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject History of Europe - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 1,3, University of Göttingen (Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte), language: English, abstract: This paper will revolve around the question of how the concepts of race and culture – encompassing the entirety of human behaviour, social practices, expressive forms and technologies – or civilisation – signifying the former’s upscaled and yet more complex version – might be interlinked in the anthropological and philosophical writings of four renowned German scholars: Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, Christoph Meiners and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. To this end, the intellectual preconditions for culture and civilisation need to be taken into account as well. All four of these scholars were deliberately chosen not only due to their pioneering contributions to scientific race and cultural theories, but also the controversial, at times perhaps even acrimonious debates they were engaged in with each other. Scholarly activity of the Enlightenment could be said to have carried the impulse to classify and organise the world around us and even beyond our immediate reach to extremes. However, tied to classification systems of any kind are incongruities and generalisations that do not necessarily, if at all, measure up to reality. Perhaps it is in these generalising descriptions, especially of foreign peoples and cultures, where one’s own self-conception surfaces most clearly. In order to gain insight into but a small fraction of the Enlightened mind, the analysis of some of the most influential and remarkable writings about the racial division of humankind could be a useful starting point.
Kant Herder And The Birth Of Anthropology
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Author : John H. Zammito
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2002
Kant Herder And The Birth Of Anthropology written by John H. Zammito and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Philosophy categories.
If Kant had never made the "critical turn" of 1773, would he be worth more than a paragraph in the history of philosophy? Most scholars think not. But this text challenges that view by revealing a precritical Kant who was immensely more influential than the one philosophers think they know.
Consequences Of Enlightenment
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Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-02-04
Consequences Of Enlightenment written by Anthony J. Cascardi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-04 with History categories.
What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cascardi argues against the view that postmodern culture has rejected Enlightenment beliefs and explores instead the continuities contemporary theory shares with Kant's failed ambition to bring the project of Enlightenment to completion. He explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Derrida, Arendt, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Wittgenstein in order to reverse the tendency to see works of art simply in terms of the worldly practices among which they are situated.
What Is Enlightenment
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Author : Immanuel Kant
language : en
Publisher: aibo publishing GmbH
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What Is Enlightenment written by Immanuel Kant and has been published by aibo publishing GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Philosophy categories.
What is Enlightenment? "Enlightenment is the exit of humans from their self-inflicted dependence." Immanuel Kant lived in the Age of Enlightenment. The church and the state dictated how people should live and think. Many poets and thinkers rebelled against this. Scientists had already shown the church many mistakes. Poets like Voltaire and thinkers like Rousseau said: people should not believe everything. Then they are not free. They enlightened people about their own power: their intellect and their reason. Immanuel Kant wrote many great works. Above all the "Critique of Pure Reason". He wanted to "bring the mind to reason". From then on, he was known as the greatest Enlightenment philosopher. But what exactly is it about? A newspaper called for an answer to this question. Here, Kant gives an answer to this question. Above all, enlightenment means thinking for yourself and having the courage to do so. That has changed everything. We can think and decide without the guidance of others. We are free. What does it mean: to orient oneself in thinking? "Faith in reason is like a compass. It helps smart people to think about theory. It also helps normal good people to do the right thing." "What is Enlightenment?” has shown: You can find your bearings in thinking. You can't be sure whether you are really thinking for yourself. And thinking can go in all directions. In order to orient ourselves correctly, we have reason. It does not only consist of reason. Our feelings also guide us. Whether we are in a dark room, orienting ourselves by the stars or in terms of truth and honesty. Reason helps us to combat superstition and wrong enthusiasm. It guides our thinking. It gives us the right direction. Nevertheless, we have to be careful. Others can also try to lead us in the name of reason. Then we are no longer free. About eternal peace "1. in a peace treaty, no one is allowed to secretly think about the next war. 2. a country may not be inherited, exchanged, bought or given away by another country. 3. the military should stop altogether over time. 4. countries should not get into debt with other countries. 5. no state may use force to interfere in another state. 6. a country at war must not prevent peace later." There were many wars and revolutions in Kant's time. Kant believed that human reason could end wars forever. He thought about the prerequisites for this. The result is his treatise "On Perpetual Peace". It is intended to establish peace throughout the world. They say it could really work. That is why it is still valid today. These three texts can be read separately. At the same time, they build on each other. They show Kant's significance from subjective thinking to world politics and into our modern world. Traces of Kant's Enlightenment can be found in many constitutions. The United Nations were founded on the basis of "Perpetual Peace". These three Kant key texts are reproduced here in plain language. They largely correspond to general standards, and we have also adapted them for easy language. The book is therefore also suitable for readers with limited reading ability (LRS), German as a second language or cognitive impairments. This means that everyone can now understand the most important German thinker. aibo publishing produces the World Literature series in simple and plain language. The first publications generated a media response across Europe, including in the FAZ and The Times London, and, according to the NZZ, triggered a “culture war”. Immanuel Kant. For the 300th birthday in plain language.
What Is Enlightenment
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Author : James Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-09-08
What Is Enlightenment written by James Schmidt and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-08 with History categories.
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of 18th-century German essays that address the question, "what is Enlightenment?". They explore the origins of 18th-century debate on the Enlightenment, and its significance for the present.
On History
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Author : Immanuel Kant
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1963
On History written by Immanuel Kant and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with History categories.
Kant And The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Elizabeth Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Kant And The Scottish Enlightenment written by Elizabeth Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with Philosophy categories.
Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual movements coming out of Scotland in the 18th Century. These scholars are also familiar with the works of Immanuel Kant and his influence on Western thought. But with the exception of discussion examining David Hume’s influence on Kant’s epistemology, metaphysics, and moral theory, little attention has been paid to the influence of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. This volume aims to fill this perceived gap in the literature and provide a starting point for future discussions looking at the influence of Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy.