Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

Contents......Page 5
Notes on Contributors......Page 7
Adopted Editions and Translations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 20
Bibliography......Page 26
Part I Sources and Influences in Kant’s Definition of the Knowledge Concerning the Human Being......Page 28
The History of the Dispute......Page 29
The Current Argument......Page 32
What Is Weltkenntnis?......Page 34
Klugheit (Prudence) in the Early Lecture......Page 37
Kant’s Anthropology Lecture as Klugheitslehre......Page 38
The Influence of Baumgarten......Page 41
Conclusion......Page 43
Bibliography......Page 44
From Rational Psychology to Pragmatic Anthropology......Page 47
Man as a Rational Animal in the Pneumatological Tradition......Page 49
The Beginnings of Pragmatic Anthropology and the Wolffian Background......Page 51
The Question of Egoism......Page 53
The Perfectibility of the Human Species......Page 54
Man’s Destiny to Make Use of His Reason......Page 56
Convergences and Divergences Between the Wolffian and Kantian Projects......Page 57
Bibliography......Page 59
Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant......Page 61
Inner Sense, Apperception, and Self-Consciousness......Page 63
Wolff and the Logic of Inner Sense......Page 69
Lambert and the Paradox of A Priori Experience......Page 71
Kant Against Inner Immediacy......Page 75
Bibliography......Page 77
Introduction......Page 80
Empirical and Rational Psychology Between Wolff and Baumgarten......Page 82
Anthropology and Psychology in Kant......Page 84
The Inner Sense......Page 87
Conclusion......Page 93
Bibliography......Page 95
Vocation of Humankind and the Philosophy of History......Page 98
The Concept of Vocation in Spalding......Page 102
The Beginning of Human History and the Preconditions for Humanity......Page 105
Vocation and Formation......Page 110
Bibliography......Page 114
Part II The Peculiarities of Anthropological Knowledge in Kant: Metaphysics, Morals, Psychology, Politics......Page 116
The Moral Dimensions of Kant’s Anthropology......Page 117
Doubts About Moral Anthropology......Page 120
Hindrances and Helps......Page 125
Additional Moral Dimensions......Page 127
Bibliography......Page 130
Poetry, a Game Between Sensibility and the Understanding......Page 133
Poetry, Genius and Wit......Page 137
Poetry: Faculty of Imagination, Fantasy and Memory......Page 141
Bibliography......Page 147
Somatology: Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries......Page 149
Kant and Somatology......Page 150
The Invention of the Term ‘Somatology’......Page 153
The Philosophical Science of the Body......Page 158
Bibliography......Page 161
Controlling Mental Disorder: Kant’s Account of Mental Illness in the Anthropology Writings......Page 163
An Inquiry Concerning Mental Deficiencies: A Key Contribution of Kant’s Approach to Human Nature......Page 164
Kant’s Map of Mental Disorders......Page 168
The Task of Controlling Mental Disorder and the Social Normativity of Reason......Page 173
Bibliography......Page 178
Index......Page 179