Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Kant’s Three Revolutions 1
5. PART I. Politics and History Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
6. 2. The Highest Political Good: “Perpetual” Peace 15
7. 3. Moses Mendelssohn and the Advancement of Humankind 25
8. 4. The Enlightenment and Its Dialectic 35
9. 5. Freedom and Coercion: Kant on Education 47
10. PART II The Morality of Reason
11. 6. The Cult of Reason: Of Humans, Deities, and Extraterrestrials 59
12. 7. Great Kant, the Categorical Imperative Doesn’t Help a Bit! 69
13. 8. The Mason as an End in Himself 81
14. 9. “Rousseau Brought Me Around”: Human Dignity and Autonomy 91
15. 10. The “Highest Good” and the Best of All Possible Worlds 101
16. PART III Rational Beings in Society
17. 11. “I Have Seen the World’s Salvation!”: Kant on Justice and Revolution 113
18. 12. “This Is Mine”: On Intellectual and Other Property 125
19. 13. A Cosmopolitan in Königsberg 135
20. 14. The Freedoms of a Humble Servant 145
21. 15. God’s Kingdom on Earth: Kant’s Religion of Reason 157
22. PART IV Humans as Part of Nature
23. 16. What (and Who) Is a Human Being? 169
24. 17. On Wit and Other Faculties: Kant as Psychologist 179
25. 18. Do Beautiful Things Show That Humans Belong in the World? 189
26. 19. “The Starry Heavens above Me”: Kant as Scientist 201
27. 20. Are Animals Machines? Kant on Teleology 211
28. PART V Metaphysical Knowledge and Its Limits
29. 21. Metaphysics: Ultimate Questions with No Answers? 223
30. 22. Critique: Reason Scrutinizes Everything, Even Itself 237
31. 23. We Must Make Our Concepts Sensible! 247
32. 24. Bodies in the Mirror: Kant on Space 257
33. 25. Objectivity (Almost) without an Object 267
34. 26. Dispute over Things-in-Themselves: Kant’s Critique and Its First Critics 277
35. 27. Infinite Series or a Prime Mover? Kant on Free Will 289
36. 28. Was Kant an Atheist? 301
37. PART VI The End
38. 29. How Everything Interrelates: Philosophy 315
39. 30. “The Pure Gold of His Philosophy”: Kant’s Legacy 325
40. Chronology 333
41. Glossary of Philosophical Terms 337
42. Note on Sources 341
43. Notes 343
44. Acknowledgments 393
45. Index 395