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Chapter 1. Kant on Individual Moral Progress

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© 2021 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction. Modernity and Postmodernity: Our Temporal Orientation 1
  4. PART I. KANT ON PROGRESS
  5. Chapter 1. Kant on Individual Moral Progress 19
  6. Chapter 2. Should We Believe in Moral Progress? 30
  7. Chapter 3. Respect, Moral Progress, and Imperfect Duty 47
  8. Chapter 4. Loneliness and Ambiguity in Kant’s Philosophy of History 62
  9. Chapter 5. Kant’s Organic Religion: God, Teleology, and Progress in the Third Critique 77
  10. Chapter 6. Realizing the Ethical Community: Kant’s Religion and the Reformation of Culture 94
  11. Chapter 7. Kant as Soothsayer: The Problem of Progress and the “Sign” of History 115
  12. PART II. PROGRESS AFTER KANT
  13. Chapter 8. History, Progress, and Autonomy: Kant, Herder, and After 137
  14. Chapter 9. Language, Embodiment, and the Supersensuous in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation 153
  15. Chapter 10. Hegel on the Conceptual Form of Philosophical History 165
  16. Chapter 11. Relocating the Highest Good: Kierkegaard on God, Virtue, and (This- Worldly) Happiness 185
  17. Chapter 12. Kant and Benjamin on Hope, History, and the Task of Interpretation 202
  18. Chapter 13. The Curious Fate of the Idea of Progress 217
  19. Notes 233
  20. List of Contributors 283
  21. Index 287
  22. Acknowledgments 293
Kant and the Possibility of Progress
This chapter is in the book Kant and the Possibility of Progress
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297799-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction. Modernity and Postmodernity: Our Temporal Orientation 1
  4. PART I. KANT ON PROGRESS
  5. Chapter 1. Kant on Individual Moral Progress 19
  6. Chapter 2. Should We Believe in Moral Progress? 30
  7. Chapter 3. Respect, Moral Progress, and Imperfect Duty 47
  8. Chapter 4. Loneliness and Ambiguity in Kant’s Philosophy of History 62
  9. Chapter 5. Kant’s Organic Religion: God, Teleology, and Progress in the Third Critique 77
  10. Chapter 6. Realizing the Ethical Community: Kant’s Religion and the Reformation of Culture 94
  11. Chapter 7. Kant as Soothsayer: The Problem of Progress and the “Sign” of History 115
  12. PART II. PROGRESS AFTER KANT
  13. Chapter 8. History, Progress, and Autonomy: Kant, Herder, and After 137
  14. Chapter 9. Language, Embodiment, and the Supersensuous in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation 153
  15. Chapter 10. Hegel on the Conceptual Form of Philosophical History 165
  16. Chapter 11. Relocating the Highest Good: Kierkegaard on God, Virtue, and (This- Worldly) Happiness 185
  17. Chapter 12. Kant and Benjamin on Hope, History, and the Task of Interpretation 202
  18. Chapter 13. The Curious Fate of the Idea of Progress 217
  19. Notes 233
  20. List of Contributors 283
  21. Index 287
  22. Acknowledgments 293
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