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Kant's Legacy
Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck
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2001
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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.
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.
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Introduction: Man as a Creator
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Is Thinking Spontaneous?
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Lewis White Beck’s Account of Kant’s Strategy
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Paths Traced through Reality: Kant on Commonsense Truths
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The Anti-Reductionist Kant
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Analyticity and the Semantics of Predicates
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Kant, the ‘I Think’, and Self-Awareness
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The Problem of Time in Kant
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Kant and Short Arguments to Humility
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Which Freedom?
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Consequentialism and Its Consequences
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Another Look at Maxims
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Kant versus Eudaimonism
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Kant and the History of the Will
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Moral Mysticism in Kant’s Religion of Practical Reason
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Kant as Educator: Reason and Religion in Part One of the Conflict of the Faculties
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The Quid Facti and Quid Juris in Kant’s Critique of Taste
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Kant in the 1760s: Contextualizing the “Popular” Turn
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Keywords for this book
Kant's legacy; Immanuel Kant; Lewis White Beck; creativity; human experience; philosophical question; epistemology; morality; religion; judgments of taste; art; Predrag Cicovacki
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